How on earth do Finnish people measure bikes?

jwoods · Post by **jwoods** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:53 pm

I'm planning on selling my old mountain bike, but I've no idea how Finnish people calculate the sizes!

I always thought it was from the top of the frame where the seat post goes in, to the middle of the crank-shaft where the pedals connect.

So an average man's bike will be 16" - 22"

But when looking at bikes in Finland they're often 26" - 28"

Does anyone know where they're measuring to-from, otherwise people will think I'm advertising a children's bike

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ajdias · Post by **ajdias** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:01 pm

Why don't you just post it here for sale?

If you are in he capital area and have an adult's bike you won't find shortage of interested buyers.

jwoods · Post by **jwoods** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:04 pm

ajdias wrote:Why don't you just post it here for sale?

If you are in he capital area and have an adult's bike you won't find shortage of interested buyers.

Well, it's quite a big bike - I am very tall. So I should find out the actual size when advertising it

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:09 pm

26" - 28"

Its the tire size

ajdias · Post by **ajdias** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:10 pm

And how tall are you?

Here~s a manual http://www.fillari-lehti.fi/perus/jutut ... eakoko.pdf
Google translation sucks because of pdf format
Here some further links http://www.fillarifoorumi.fi/forum/show ... hp?t=22962

jwoods · Post by **jwoods** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:42 pm

Pursuivant wrote:
26" - 28"
Its the tire size

aaaah! tyre size! now that makes sense

Seems a bit of an odd way to classify bikes, but whatever rocks there world!

Thanks for that, I would never have worked that out for myself!

jwoods · Post by **jwoods** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:43 pm

ajdias wrote:Why don't you just post it here for sale?

If you are in he capital area and have an adult's bike you won't find shortage of interested buyers.

Excellent idea! I've mentioned it in the For Sale section of this excellent forum

I'm quite proud of myself for also almost single-handedly navigating huuto.net and listing it there too

Rob A. · Post by **Rob A.** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:44 pm

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:19 pm

Finnish bicycles have always been sold by the tyre size... xcept funny fold-downs or jopo bikes thats 20"

CONSIDERING RIDING A BICYCLE YOU DO IN THE SUMMER WHEN ITS NOT SO SNOWY YOU FOREIGN STUPIDS THANKS FOR REMINDING

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:48 am

Pursuivant wrote:CONSIDERING RIDING A BICYCLE YOU DO IN THE SUMMER WHEN ITS NOT SO SNOWY YOU FOREIGN STUPIDS THANKS FOR REMINDING

This sentence made no sense whatsoever, consider using it in your stand up comedy act on wednesday and see what kind of reaction you get!

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:56 am

It makes sense only with "finnish summer" - we got an inch of hail yesterday at the time I wrote that. Amd it was sporadic thunderstorms.

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