Originally Posted by
Leinster
Is she asking for a custom lay-up and a unique frame to her specifications, or just to get her fit dialled in right? It really doesn't sound like too much to ask to get fit right. They have a Worlds contender on their books for a whole year and they couldn't get her to a wind tunnel?
Cav is an interesting comparison; wasn't he spotted riding his old Venge for some stages at the Tour because he didn't like the integrated brake that Spesh put on the new version?
Sure they got her to a wind tunnel. When a stock geometry frame didn't fit who is going to pay tens or hundreds of thousands of USD to have one one-off molded? Women's teams are on a shoe-string budget. There's no $$ lying around from the team for that.
Further the UCI rules regarding frame geometry are ultra-assholian, your saddle cannot even be unlevel and as we all know your bars cannot extend even a single millimeter too long. All the bikes already have the steerer cut as low as it will go and stem/handlebars configured the same. What more can you do regarding fit to get someone an inch lower? No much of anything short of a better fitted frame.