You are reading a single comment by @daveray and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@daveray
As for frame size, people like different fits and it is to do with all sorts of things like proportions, flexibility, habit, preference, engineering, ruling bodies and inevitably fashion. Your height is only one factor, more importantly it should be split between inside leg (proper, the fact you wear 32" leg jeans or whatever is not an accurate gauge) and torso length.
A good place to start re the complicated and by no means absolute world of sizing is
http://www2.bsn.de/Cycling/ergobike.html
That said, factor in that track bikes don't fit quite like road bikes and that you probably aren't that worried and we are probably back to where we started.