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Old August 3rd 03, 03:02 PM
Bret
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Default Fitting short legs

"Boyd Speerschneider" wrote in message

I am also a rider with a longer torso and shorter legs. I'm 5'8.75" and
have a 31.25" inseam. Like another poster mentioned, go to
www.wrenchscience.com and use their fit calculator. I did this and found
that I needed a bike with a 52cm frame (seat tube center-to-center) and a
65 cm reach. This was tricky to pull of without a) using a crazy long

stem
or b) getting a custom-made frame.
However, shopping around I found that the Fuji team bike has a nice
geometry for people shaped like me. Their 56cm fram is actually 52cm
center to center with a 56 cm top tube. So I got the appropriate stem
(which actually wasn't that long) and I was set.
LeMond is also notorious for making frames with these sort of "relaxed"
geometries (ie., a longer top tube to seat tube ratio).

Hope this helps,

- Boyd S.

ps. Lose your stem spacers, slam that bad boy all the way down, level your
drops with the ground, and learn how to ride with your back flat.
Stretching helps with the flexablity required.


OK, take 1.25" off your inseam and add 2.5" to your
torso and you have my frame geometry! (-; Thanks for the link, I'm heading
over there. It sounds like increasing the stem length is going to be my
only chance of salvation at this point. The bike doesn't hurt me, but I
can't
get my back to flatten out. When you lose the stem spacers, what do you do
with the rest of the vertical tube that's left? Do people cut these off?
When my "friends" notice my stem with 4 spacers on it they yell "dork
alert!"


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