What do you use your CX bike for?

[Eden]

Coworker is about your height (though I don't know inseams), and she doesn't have a lot of clearance. I'd have to go look, but their bikes seem oddly tall. I've tried out their true road bike in a small, and it's a traditional diamond frame. I can't tell if it's the bike or the fact I'm used to a sloped top tube, but getting on the bike was an interesting experience!

Cross bikes measure out differently..... the bottom bracket on a CX bike is higher - for clearance over rocks, roots, barriers, etc. That means the seat tube measures out shorter on what is technically a larger bike (and seat tube length is what is used as "size"). A 48cm cross bike is going to fit more like a 50/52cm road bike - not to mention that they rarely have compact geometry so the stand over is going to be higher too. Expect that you will need to have at least one size down from your road bike size on a cross bike.

[anorange]

The Charge Filter XC e bike is sold at Performance. They have some of last years model on sale. I'm 5'2". I'm not good with math and have a hard time sorting out all the geometry numbers. I have a 29" inseam. If anyone is a similar size and has a fairly good fit on a XC bike I'd love to know what you ride. My brain is getting twisted trying to figure all the numbers out

[Owlie]

Anorange, a friend is 5'3" or 5'4"ish and had to have the seat post cut down on the XS Charge. I'd also be riding an XS Charge and I'm nearly 5'7". (I'm all legs, she's all torso.)

[Swan]

Funny how relevant this thread is just now! I finally learned a little more about bikes and made a list of what I wanted in one, and the Charge Filter Apex meets it all... crazy! I may have to take after your friend and get one cut down a little but I think it'll be well worth it. So excited that I finally know the bike! Too bad it doesn't come in pretty colors, but a paint job is only a couple hundred yeah?

I'll be using it for everything except CX as well (unless I get into CX... Which may yet happen lol)

[Owlie]

Funny how relevant this thread is just now! I finally learned a little more about bikes and made a list of what I wanted in one, and the Charge Filter Apex meets it all... crazy! I may have to take after your friend and get one cut down a little but I think it'll be well worth it. So excited that I finally know the bike! Too bad it doesn't come in pretty colors, but a paint job is only a couple hundred yeah?

I'll be using it for everything except CX as well (unless I get into CX... Which may yet happen lol)

I wish they came in colors other than black or white (the 2013s are white). I'd absolutely take it down to the other shop around here and have it sandblasted and powder-coated a deep green (Charge has a single-speed that's an absolutely beautiful shade of dark green), dark blue, or purple. The only problem is that you can't replace the decals. Oh well. Both colors are relatively versatile, and I have plans for them, depending on which one I get my hands on.

[Owlie]

Is that British racing green? They all sound lovely. I looked them up after you mentioned them before.

I think it could be said that it is, though it looks black in some light. If it weren't single-speed...

I think I'm going to hang on for a little while and order it around Christmas, or just after. So I'll be getting the white version, and I definitely have plans to trick it out. (I'm going to get red anodized bottle cages and spoke nipples, once I figure out what size I need.) I'm going to have to get it its own seat bag, because it's going to need different tubes and I am way too lazy to keep moving the contents around.