frame size + height

[xeney]

This is an interesting thread and makes me feel better about the frame I am waiting on. I am 5'6" with a 32" cycling inseam. My current road bike is a 53cm with a 535 effective top tube, and I have a 5 cm stem on it, plus a setback seatpost.

The frame I've ordered is a 50cm with an effective top tube of 524. I almost went down to the 48cm -- ETT of 521 -- but we decided the 50 would do it. I am having some buyer's remorse so some of this data is making me feel better.

[uforgot]

I'm 5'4", but when I use the book method I measure an inseam of 31.75". Pretty long for as short as I am. (Then again, my belly button seems to be only an inch below my chest). On my Surly, I have a TT of 525 and a 90mm stem. I tried 70mm, but it was way too short. Around 625 total for TT and stem seems to be the most comfortable. My Surly is 46cm, and the standover is about 1/2" higher than my Burley, which was a 53cm, so you can't just figure that you are one size and one size only. Obviously manufacturers have different sizing.

[OakLeaf]

I don't quite understand this "book method" of measuring.

Is it just for people who are too shy to put the end of the tape into their crotch hard, with their finger? Or is there something else happening with the book?

[Starfish]

Is it just for people who are too shy to put the end of the tape into their crotch hard, with their finger?

And the prize goes to Oakleaf, for giving me my first bonafide LOL for the day!

[KnottedYet]

the book just makes sure you get the "average minimum" of the contours of your crotch.

(fingers, well, depends on whose you use what you'll get there...)

[OakLeaf]

(fingers, well, depends on whose you use what you'll get there...)