How did you find (or are still searching for) "the one [bicycle]"?

[emily_in_nc]

How did you discover you had long femurs? Long in general or long for your height?

I'm not the person you're asking but will butt in anyway. I suspect she means long for her height, which affects the optimum geometry of any bike you should choose (or have custom built).

I realized I had long femurs for my height when I had to push my saddles all the way back on their rails PLUS use a setback seatpost to get my knees over or behind the pedal spindles on my bikes. Without this, my knees would be in front of the pedal spindle when a plumb bob was dropped from my knee straight down. On my older Terry Isis with a 73-degree STA, I could get my knees behind the spindle with the setback seatpost and saddle all the way back on the rails, but on my Aegis Swift with a 75-degree STA, I could just get my knee over the spindle with the same saddle and seatpost. I wouldn't be able to ride bike with a steeper STA than 75 (I'm short so many bikes in my size have a 76 degree STA), and even 75 is not optimum since it requires me to have my saddle so far back. Like Trisk, I need a slacker STA (for me, 74 would probably be fine, she needed 73). Once I realized this, I developed a bit of a fascination with it, and when I was sitting beside a woman of similar height, say in an auditorium, I'd line up my leg with hers and eyeball where our knees were in relation to where we were sitting on our butts, and typically, my femur was slightly to quite a bit longer than the other woman's.