Originally Posted by
surgtech1956
Let me see if I have this right. From the bottom of my foot(floor) to the crotch area is just almost 30 inches. I put a book - maybe too big of a book and it measured 26 inches. Does this sound right???
Now I'm lost. Both with this "big" book at 26 inches, and then you said a hardcover novel got you 26 1/2 inches.
How did your inseam decrease 3 1/2 to 4 inches?
Using a book or board to squish the soft tissue out of the way so you get a boney landmark measurement should've made your inseam measurement increase.
Here we can fall back on A+P again. What we're looking for is pubic symphysis to distal surface of calcaneous. The book and wall are just a way of isolating pubic symphysis to bottom of calcaneous. Do what you need to get that measurement in weightbearing, and then you can use that to assess the standover height with regards to a bicycle's top tube.
Edit: are you holding the book horizontally or vertically? Got a broom? Use the broomstick intead. Mash that critter into your pubes holding it horizontally like it was the top tube of a bike. Measure from the top/upper/high/pressing against your girlie-bits/closest-to-the-sky edge of the broomstick to the floor. That gives you the standover height of a bike that would crush your girlie-bits but not bust your pelvis open like a walnut. (aka bicycling inseam, aka absolute no questions asked do not pass go do not recieve $200 upper limit) If you don't want a bike to mash your bits every time you stand over it, get a bike with a SMALLER/lower/closer-to-the-ground standover height.
Last edited by KnottedYet; 06-02-2007 at 05:08 PM.
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