Originally posted by bounceswoosh
Not sure I agree with you there. If you come off of the bike in a hurry, you don't want a top tube up your delicate parts!
I have very little standover clearance on my Superlight. We had to change lots of things on it to make the bike "cockpit" fit me. I got the smallest frame made, but the standover was still pretty tall for me. It was the bike that I wanted, so we made it work.

I have fallen many times. I've hit the top tube probably about 10 times (in 4,000 miles of trail riding). I think that if I had more standover clearance, I still would have hit that top tube about 8 times. Mountain bike crashes are sometimes pretty violent. The difference in a couple of inches of standover doesn't save you every time!!