Originally Posted by
AnthonyG
Guess which way the bike manufacturers went? That's right. The easy way which is the wrong way to do it.
So anyway a lady takes the bike for a short test ride and it feels better to her as the reach is shorter but she hasn't ridden it far enough to feel the extra weight on her hands and shoulders. She buys it anyway but months later when she feels the problem she takes it in for a fitting.
All a fitter can do is move the saddle back with a setback post if necessary but this extends the reach
Modern bike frame design is a mess.
Anthony
Or he puts a short 25-degree rise stem on it.
I did a search on "average body proportions" and got a raft of interesting hits.
This is the only one that made any kind of sense to me. Of course, I wasn't trying too hard.
But, for men, leg length of 46% of overall height feels about right for men of average height (176-180 cm?). And in my experience sizing women to bikes, their average proportional leg length appears no longer than men's. The arms might be shorter, though.