The saddest part of it is that there are plenty of guys out there who would benefit from "wsd" geometry. I don't fit WSD bikes at all, but my bf feels pretty comfortable on my friend's WSD Madone. Would he ever buy a WSD bike? Hell no. Why? Because they are girly (although that Madone is a hot shade of dark metallic purple). So these guys go with a bike that doesn't fit as well. Even if there's a guy who likes pink (and real pink, not T-Mobile pink), is he going to buy a pink bike with flowers? Hell no. I find it odd that when you look at racing caliber bikes especially, manufacturers still seem to think that a fast racer is going to care about how cute the bike looks and not how BADASS it looks.
I'm glad I don't need to buy WSD bikes. It's not that I want to avoid pink necessarily, but I like that I get a decent SELECTION. If I want to put pink bartape and tires and whatever else on there I can, but I can also keep the look classic with white.
On a similar note, I'm glad that most women's cycling clothing doesn't fit me either. It's either black or some pastel color with the flowers.



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