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edscoble
dancing james
Women don't need different geometries than men-- unless we are speaking of roadsters and the need to accommodate long skirts. The main issue confronting short women is not geometry but the availablilty of well designed small frames. It seems that even the shorter professional men cyclists are taller than 5'3" (and tend not to have eyes of blue). The mountain fleas in the peleton-- guys like Nairo Quintana (5'5"), David Etxebarria (5'5"), Paulo Bettini (5'7")-- are not shorter than leading women have been: Jeannie Longo (5'4"), Loentien van Moorsel (5'6"), Barabara Heeb (5'5").
The smallest professional male cyclist I can think of is perhaps Sammy Dumoulin (5'2").
