Originally Posted by
Amesja
I think people just didn't care that much about "sizing" of bikes back then -at least the kinds of people who bought upright 3-speed type bikes. It isn't as necessary that it be sized at closely to your height and LBS's selling the 23" bikes probably had a hard time moving them so why bother stocking something that didn't move?
The same thing goes for the 19" step-throughs. The 21" were much more common while the 19"s just were not imported and sold as much.
Very odd. Nearly all of the step throughs I find are 19"; 21" seem to be much rarer. Of course, my wife's friends want 3-speeds now, and they're all 5'7", 5'8", so I'm having trouble finding them bikes.