Originally Posted by
FBinNY
All questions are easy, it's the answers that are sometimes difficult.
Ain't that the painful truth.
Originally Posted by
FBinNY
.....and some are also giving stand-over height (top of the top tube to the ground) which is helpful.
Stand-over height is useful for a level top tube frame but can be misleading for a sloping top tube. Riders can pick a much too large frame (from a top tube
length standpoint) by thinking the stand-over is adequate since the top tube is well below where it would be on a level frame. These days picking a frame size based on (virtual) top tube length has become more important since it isn't as closely related to frame size and stand-over as it used to be.