Do you think bike frame size is less important these days?

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As I suspected, at 5'4" with legs like tree stumps I've been riding bikes too big most of my life.

But why did you need to look at a spreadsheet to confirm it? Didn't you just know simply because you were uncomfortable. I've been trying to get my new bike to feel comfortable, not to be the right size frame. I think there's an important difference because as I realised today, different frames with different geometries made by different manufacturers come up differently. It now seems perverse to go into a shop and insist on a particular size.

It's like shoes. I'm usually a 10.5 or 45, but with some shoes I buy I need an 11 and others a 10.

So from now on I'm going to tell the shop the size I usually take for bike frames, but let them measure me for their bikes, and then I'm going to ride it and see if it's comfortable and if it's not I'm going back to see how I can improve the ride.