Yup! BMX baby. My roots are there. My bikes had sloping top tubes. To my eye, that's how a bike should look, so... I ride a compact geometry bike. Simple as that. There are no advantages or disadvantages IMHO. I just simply like the way it looks better than a horizontal top tube.
You should see my wife's Schwinn (got it during their bankruptcy sale). I think her seat post is actually longer than the seat tube. Looks cools as hell, as far as I'm concerned. She puts down the bike splits too, so no complaints there. I guess some of the ONCE Giant bikes and maybe Lieto's Litespeed come pretty close to the same seat tube / seat post length ratio. I dig it.
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Justin in Austin, get it? :)
Cool races:
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Desoto American Triple T