Inexpensive mountain bikes

[jabberwocky]

What stem length is on your Quick? Remember that actual mtbs can run shorter stems than road/hybrids. The trend these days is actually towards fairly short (<70mm) stems on most mountain bikes.

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@jabberwocky 32244 wrote:

What stem length is on your Quick? Remember that actual mtbs can run shorter stems than road/hybrids. The trend these days is actually towards fairly short (<70mm) stems on most mountain bikes.

My Quick has a 50.5 effective top tube, which is pretty good. I see that my well fitting Cannondale Quick has a seat tube angle of 76 degrees to go with the 50.5cm top tube. How does that compare with these other bikes?

[jabberwocky]

I got the top tube, but that only measures to the middle of the headtube. To get total reach, you also need to add the stem length to it. If your Quick is sporting a (for example) 90mm stem, you could conceivably get a frame with a 52.5cm headtube and put a 70mm stem on it to get roughly the same fit.

Given your dimensions, you’ll definitely be looking at extra small bikes. I don’t think you need to go to 24″ kids bikes though. Most manufacturers do make very small bikes. I don’t know if you’re female or not, but the big manufacturers pretty much all have women-specific lines these days, which will usually have small sizes available. I know a few ladies in the 5′ range rocking regular 26″ mountain bikes.

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