What do you call a low BB?

[bethextrem1]

I was wondering what is classed as a low bottom bracket?

I hear people say that the Sunday has a low bb, 13.9". This seems to me to be a med/average bb height, am I wrong in thinking that? My last bike had a bb of 12.4" (Kona stab)

I'm thinking of a V10 but it has a bb of 14.8". I think that's high???
Or the intense socom fro bb of 14.1", or as above a Sunday?

Does it make a difference (to bb ride height) if it is a single pivot (like the kona), a mystro, a dw link or a vpp?

 

[jda]

I would say anything under 14" is low, my glory is about 14.2" but running 35% sag in the rear I hit my feet just as much as my old Orange which was 13.8"

I wouldn't get too worried about BB height, anything close to 14" is going to be good enough in the corners.

 

[dilzy]

Remember BB height is measured to the center of the bb, not the bottom. 12.4" seems pretty rediculas.

For an 8" bike, anything above 14.5" is quite high.

 

[bethextrem1]

Remember BB height is measured to the center of the bb, not the bottom. 12.4" seems pretty rediculas.


I agree that 12.4" seems rediculas but that's what Kona say the 2006 model stab has. It doesn't feel lower than a glory but the numbers quoted are so different it's confused me. That's why i've asked if a vpp style link sits differently than a single pivot, that includes a single pivot rocker linkage i.e Kona (it's not a four bar I don't care what the idiots at Kona call it!)

 

[shiznik]

I run my 222 on the sencond lowest setting with 215mm e2e shock and the BB sits a bees dick over 13" which is awesome IMO, if it's a really rocky track I might put it up one setting, but it slices like a ninja on 13".
Sundays are an inch too high.