I hate that bike frame manufacturers don't let us use longer droppers on medium frames though there clearly is space for that. Instead they have to bend the seat tubes or put the dropper hole to high or just put bottlecage bolts that block longer droppers. The above calculations took me way longer than they should have. Thank god I was taught to count proportions in high school so I could convert mm to pixels. The only frame I know of that cares about fitting the largest dropper possible is Stanton Sedona (and now the new Switchback) and the frame was not even designed by Stanton. It took someone from the outside, a Youtuber to show them how it's supposed to be done. I wish every company would take note from this example.
by Dense_Quiet1573
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That kink is there because its cheaper than offsetting a straight tube from the BB. But you’re right it’s annoyingly limiting dropper insertion. There is a shift to this tough, the Gen7 Fuel EX/MX/LX as an example have a straight, BB ofset seattube.
For the rest; instead of counting pixels, check specsheets, insertion depth is often on itÂ