Originally Posted by
zelah
everyone spouts how stand over height does not matter but that's only true if you can still stand over it. no one wants to ride a bike that they can't even straddle
agreed, and this is exactly the argument i was just going to start with mihlback.
I would have preferred the top-tube length of the 56 bareknuckle, but i couldn't stand over it. Should I have bought a bike i couldn't stand over just because it might fit better while riding? I don't think so.
Like you said, you do need to take more into account. If you look at two bikes with the same length seattubes C-C and horizontal top tubes, but one has a higher BB and a steeper ST angle, does one bike have a higher standover? Yes. And the bareknuckle has a higher standover than most people might expect it to, for a given size.