Road Bike Sizing Long Legs Short Torso

3 don t run a super wide bar it eats up your precious reach.

Road bike sizing long legs short torso. 2 don t size up and run a slightly longer stem than is fashionable. 538mm 165mm 550mm 180mm 565 200mm edit. Either you buy a shorter bike as the op seeks eg aforementioned scott cr1 or ribble gran fondo both of which work for me with the same problem and end up with a nice fit or you buy any old frame and do as you say which would result in a huge pile of spacers to correct the low. Ett 548 mm sta 74 hta 71 4 tall head tube 206 mm saddle to bar drop is approx 10 2 cm.

And 4 pray for longer arms. Height inseam 187 93 cm. Be sure that you re quoting cycling inseam not pants inseam. Sorry for all these long legged people but this is the worst case for achieving an optimum bike fit.

You ve got a long torso and i m an example of short torso being an inch shorter 169cm with a 32 5 8 or 83cm cycling inseam. Forgot to mention merida ride series carbon if you re in the uk. The long legs will mean a high saddle so the bars become relatively far away. If you have long legs and short torso you need to buy a bike with a relatively short top tube.

53 cm frame size center to top. Having a long torso w short limbs my main sizing suggestions are. 67 50 cm saddle height. I m about an inch shorter than the op.

The dealer insisted that i needed a large frame 56cm. I was going to try to stay out of this esp. 71 77 cm handlebar width. Ws recommended road sizes frame size center to center.

I think it can be mitigated by. Long legs imply a short torso so the reach to the bars becomes excessive. Any others with long legs short torso experience this dilema. Since i m opposite end of spectrum short legs long torso but i will say this.

I made the move to a road bike and purchased a scott s20. Shorter effective seat tube lengths and low stand over feels more confidence inspiring too. I have long legs and a short torso. So the modern trend of bike geo really is helping our body type.

1 running as steep an effective seat tube angle saddle position in relation to bb as you can handle. Don t dismiss a bike because it s not a 54. You might even think about sizing up on an endurance style frame or at least not be stuck on the idea that you need a 54. One could consider a shorter top tube but this would also tend to come with a.

1 good bike maker for long leg short torso 2 any online resource where i can enter my measurements and it will recommend a bike. With my current saddle height stem 115 mm 8 degrees. Long legs normal arms a bit short torso bike. The ratio of overall height to cycling inseam is the thing to compare like mine a 169 83 is 2 04 while yours would be 2 25.

Look for long reach high stack steep seat tube. 540 170 550 190 565 215 though the bb drop is only 65mm.