Originally Posted by
Road Fan
It's also a matter of rider tolerance. With over 40 years experience on bicycles, I have tolerance for a standover height that gives me just a cm or so of clearance when standing in my cycling shoes. I also have a very well-trained habit of not landing flat-footed on the ground after a panic stop. I'm really only worried about contact bone to top tube. Some others could not abide a bike with this sizing. But I agree, the SOH means essentially nothing in determining if a bike will be a good for the rider, or will allow the rider's contact point requirements to be satisfied.
However if it's a worry bead for the customer, the bike shop should respect it while not neglecting the other factors in cycle fitting. It's not an easy out.
Hi,
That just implies compared to average your on the somewhat shorter legged
longer torso side and prefer to compromise stand over for the sort of fit you
like with frames built in sizes for the "average" person.
Cynical manipulation of standover without proper sizing did and still does occur,
especially for extreme bike sizes, tall bikes are too short, short bikes too long.
I would assume you prefer bikes sized on your height, not inseam/standover.
rgds, sreten.
Standover can be meaningless, but most of the time now its very meaningful.