On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:56:59 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:

On Saturday, 12 October 2019 01:06:41 UTC-4, John B. wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 23:31:09 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:22:13 +0700, John B.
wrote:


Most of the formula use height and in-seam measurements use . Try
https://www.bicycle-guider.com/bike-...ke-size-chart/ and
compare it with your current bike, but beware that this fits you to
the bicycle, i.e., essentially the distance from the seat to the pedal
at the bottom of its stroke and if your problem is getting from the
ground to the top of the thing you will need to change these
measurements. But beware that the closer the seat is to the ground the
shorter the distance from the seat to the pedal will be and you may
find yourself pedaling with bent knees which can be uncomfortable as
well as inefficient.

Seat height is easly adjusted; it concerns me more that a shorter seat
tube implies a shorter top tube, and I'm perfectly happy once I get
aboard.

Seat height is easily adjusted... to be higher. Try making it lower
than the top tube :-)

It is almost inevitable that if those building bicycles will assume
that people with short legs will have a short upper body also :-)

A mixte of the same height would be perfect, but nowadays people think
that "mixte" is another way to spell "drop frame".

And in upstate New England, when I was a youth, they were referred to
as girls, or lady's bikes :-)


Which reminds me that I used to know a very heavy rider who had a
custom diamond-mixte -- it had both a top tube and a pair of mixte
stays, and the rack was part of the frame. He delighted in showing
that the rack would support his considerable weight.

And I crossed a bridge the other day rated for 100 tons. It is purely
a matter of selecting the proper materials :-)


("Know" in the sense of acquaintence of an acquaintence.)
--
cheers,

John B.

We always referred to bicycles with a double sloping top tube that ws attached to both the seat tube and the dropouts as a MIXTE frame. If the bicycle had only one strongly sloping top tube that ended at the seat tube and did not go to the dropouts, we referred to that as a LADY'S frame. Technically speaking Mixte and Lady's frames are NOT the same thing.

Mixte frames were originally designed for shorter riders both women or men. It was developed in France between the two World Wars and was a unisex design.

Cheers

Then I would assume that it would be politically correct to use a
Mixte bicycle in Portland :-?
--
cheers,

John B.