Why Do They Make The Top Bar Of A Bike Frame Higher On The Mens Bikes Than They Do On The Womens Bike?
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at
12:18 am
Was the inventer of the bike a female and wanted men to suffer if the fell off their seat?
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Women initially cycled in skirts and dresses
Putting the top tube lower was done for the sake of modesty when women rode bikes in dresses. The lower top tube made the bike weaker and less stable, but back then women were not expected to ride hard. Today, there is no fundamental difference between a women’s specific design and a bike designed for men. Some manufacturers will change the lengths of the various tubes to match what they feel are differences in the proportions between male and female anatomy, such as the percentage of height in the torso as opposed to the legs. Other very respected manufacturers say there is no significant proportion difference and the problem is that bikes are not properly fitted to shorter people of either gender.
In any case, if you see a “girl’s bike” with the low top tube, then it is being made for marketing or nostalgia reasons. Don’t confuse this with a design that has a sloping top tube that meets the seat tube at or very near the top. That’s something completely different.
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the inventors of the bike wanted to make the strongest lightest frame possible
the result after 125 years is still the classic “double diamond frame”
which looks like a ‘mens bike’
a “woman;s bike” is a kludge made for ‘modesty’, for women wearing skirts – not strength or lightness
it will always be heavier and/or weaker than a ‘mens bike’ frame
[in the same price range anyway]
proper lady racers no longer care about ‘modesty’
[bike shorts are less modest for men than women, if you think about what actually shows....]
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yea, if you see women’s performance bikes with that low toptube, it’s just to add classic oldschool flavor to today’s cycling world
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