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@nomoreknees
I'm not female so apologies for butting in, but another thing to consider is putting much much shorter cranks on your new bike cafewanda.
The knee hitting the chest thing is partly attributed to this.
Shorter cranks will mean you raise the saddle too, and will bring your position on the bike rearwards, so a shorter frame might be in order.
Sadly a lot of, if not all, off the peg small size road bikes will have 170mm cranks.
You may benefit from 160 or shorter still.
I can't remember if it was SJS or somewhere else, but they would shorten cranks by drilling a new pedal mounting thread further up the crank