r cielec wrote:
>> From my experience of not many bikes, TT's are to the long side,
>> not the short. I ride a 51.5 - 52 ST and TT usually give me a
>> stretch. Perhaps the small frame height forces the geometery. I
>> can't say. Also, the Raleighs and Witcomb and Paramounts (Raleigh
>> clones?) have very long TT's for me while several Italians - Basso,
>> Bianchi, Tommassini (sp?), Masi - have a shorter read the right
>> size for me - TT's. A long while ago, one of the women listers who
>> rides shorter frames made a similar observation - that English run
>> long in TT's while the Italians run shorter (and fit well the
>> shorter rider). To repeat - this is from my experience from the few
>> bikes I've ridden.
Some of this may also be due to UCI regulations. I remember Trek sponsored a womans' track team at the worlds in the 80s and we had to rebuild all the team frames because the front-center measurment didn't meet UCI regulations. So we had to provide them with some goofy-but-compliant frames, like 48cm seat tube with a 55cm front-center measurement.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA