Originally Posted by
Brian Ratliff
Political correctness doesn't change the fact that standover was used for a long time to size bikes - and that reality has changed drastically in the last decade. It's on the OP to explain his problem in detail if he wants relevant information. Otherwise assumptions tend to play into the responses. There are different ways to skin a cat. If we take the OP strictly at face value, what else is there to say except that some manufacturers list it and some don't and the gold standard is to visit a bike shop and ride one of the bikes? It'd be a two post thread. Now we are talking about sloped top tubes and stack and reach and all other sorts of relevant information the OP can synthesize into a solution to his problem.
Give me a break. In the OP, he clearly states (emphasis mine) "I can't even judge if a particular model is worth looking at or not if I can't figure out
if I can clear the top tube on their smallest model!" Does that lead you to assume that he's concerned about having "too much" SO? Of course not - it plainly shows that he's concerned with meeting a minimum requirement. Nothing more, nothing less.
As far as the durr, durr, durr to synthesize the hur de hurr... great. Fantastic. But we can get to that point even more easily and quickly without "wrong, wrong, wrong, literally irrelevant, yadda yadda."