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Would anyone with a street bike be so kind to measure the effective stack for me?


stirlingpowers

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Effective stack = vertical distance hands to feet, or in other words: bar end height - BB height

I get values of 680 to 750 mm filling in the manufacturers' missing values, but that's a bit vague. 
https://madscientistmtb.com/bike-geometry-compare/ says approximately 735 mm for a Hex Team. 
Unfortunately, I can't get my hands on a bike where I live.

Thanks in advance, and I will post several cat pictures as compensation.

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  • stirlingpowers changed the title to Would anyone with a street bike be so kind to measure the effective stack for me?

Surely ‘effective stack’ is meaningless to compare bikes as so many factors can change the measurement (bar geo, stem geometry, stacker quantity / height, fork length, and lots of others that could technically change it).

I could get a fourplay to have a similar effective stack as a raleigh burner if I put the correct components on it 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is why stack is taken from centre top of head tube, as less factors have an impact

 

edit: to be slightly helpful, I will try and get you my bar height at somepoint

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All true, but I want to decide on the stem for a given frame and fork. It feels too low for me now, but I don't know much about street riding, I'd rather learn with the tried & tested geometry. If you measure, could you tell me whether it's the Hex of https://youtu.be/watch?v=JouWWKuBNbw? That would help nailing down the stack to a centimeter.

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That helps, a lot. THANK YOU!

So your effective stack should be slightly above 710 mm. With this abomination https://www.ergotec.de/en/products/vorbauten/sub/ahead-vorbau/produkt/high-charisma-31-8.html, I have 720 mm, but I can lower to 710. Feels a lot better than the 680 I previously had.

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