Road Bike Sizing Short Legs Long Torso

Long legs imply a short torso so the reach to the bars becomes excessive.

Road bike sizing short legs long torso. If you have long legs and short torso you need to buy a bike with a relatively short top tube. Any others with long legs short torso experience this dilema. So long torso good reach but short legs. Since i m opposite end of spectrum short legs long torso but i will say this.

So the modern trend of bike geo really is helping our body type. 538mm 165mm 550mm 180mm 565 200mm edit. Height inseam 187 93 cm. I can ride 54 cm or 56 cm but wondered what others who face this body type do prefer for fit.

Having a long torso w short limbs my main sizing suggestions are. And 4 pray for longer arms. 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. Be sure that you re quoting cycling inseam not pants inseam.

Look for long reach high stack steep seat tube. I was going to try to stay out of this esp. 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.

For reference i ride a 17 mountain bike 44cm and it feels like its a part of me. The dealer insisted that i needed a large frame 56cm. With my current saddle height stem 115 mm 8 degrees. 5 9 long torso and shorter legs with an inseam of 31 inches.

He stated that because i have a long torso the longer top tube was more important then the seat tube measurement. Shorter effective seat tube lengths and low stand over feels more confidence inspiring too. I am pretty similar sizing to you. Forgot to mention merida ride series carbon if you re in the uk.

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. One could consider a shorter top tube but this would also tend to come with a. I think it can be mitigated by. 1 running as steep an effective seat tube angle saddle position in relation to bb as you can handle.

540 170 550 190 565 215 though the bb drop is only 65mm. 3 don t run a super wide bar it eats up your precious reach. Don t dismiss a bike because it s not a 54. 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.

Long legs normal arms a bit short torso bike. The long legs will mean a high saddle so the bars become relatively far away. Sorry for all these long legged people but this is the worst case for achieving an optimum bike fit. I made the move to a road bike and purchased a scott s20.