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Is it only for men? The ST/TT size is spot on though...
The factors to correlate foot length to height etc. are gender (and to a certain extent race) specific. Foot length seems to reach mature length much earlier than legs (femur, tibia). Given the impact on growth from estrogen it seems that women can have comparatively longer feet yet shorter legs and whence longer torsos. The reason that women have smaller feet is that they are shorter and there is a social aesthetic trend to wear too small shoes (in its most cruel form as the sexual fetish of Chinese foot bindings)! Woman's bicycle fit is, however, additionally complicated by the gender differences in muscle mass, flexibility etc.
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I believe women tend to have LONGER legs and SHORTER upper bodies relative to their height compare to men? (but men on average will have larger feet relative to their height)?
I'm quite happy on men's bikes, but once you go below a 50cm TT a 700C wheel becomes hard to use with non-toe-murdering geo, and that doesn't make it easy, so now 650C bikes are offered by Evans, among others.
Pink and flowers on women's frames are deffo my big fit issues... :P
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... the sexual fetish of Chinese foot bindings...
The what?
Where do you get this rubbish?
JWestland
Scilly.Suffolk
My shoe size is 2 sizes too small then ;)
Is it only for men? The ST/TT size is spot on though...