Quote Originally Posted by Owlie View Post
I do need "WSD" (long legs, short torso, small hands), but I agree that a lot of it is marketing--as long as the top tube length is good, I can in theory swap out components to make any given bike work for me. I think Cannondale and Giant simply file a half-centimeter or so off the top tube of the unisex frames and call it good. Specialized does actually seem a little different.
When I bought my SuperSix the men's and women's of the same size had identical geometries (I went with a "men's" because the white and orange color scheme was hot and the women's colors were lame...I don't think they offered SRAM Rival on a women's frame, either, which was the component group I wanted). Maybe that's different, now. Though I notice with their mountain bikes that the #s are still the same in the same sizes...the handlebar width and saddles are simply different.