Sean on seat tube length
Sean, from B&l, lends his expertise on the issue of seat tube/top tube length. If you haven’t read the first piece, you might want to go back and do it.
And Sean seems to think I need less top tube ’cause I’m inflexible. To that I say “Flexible, smexible. I’m as tolerant as the next guy.” –Corrie
Steve,
A few quick thoughts on what you wrote. Seat tube length is something we hardly talk about anymore. One of the reasons is the new bikes have the sloping top tubes, making it much easier to stand over them. I can sometimes have a person stand over a bike that is two and sometimes 3 sizes too big for them and they still have standover clearance.