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Originally Posted by rustystrings61
The old Fred DeLong cycling book from 1974 or so had a line drawing of three men of the same height superimposed to demonstrate that different leg and torso proportions would dictate different seat tube lengths and stem extensions.
For sure. It turns out that humans are stuck together from parts with pretty sloppy tolerances.

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