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| | PETER RICH'S VELO SPORT BICYCLES - Bicycles for Women by Peter Rich |
 | | Also, if the riderâs bicycle is carrying a child in an over-the-rear-wheel child seat, then a step-through design makes sense, both for mounting and supporting the bicycle at a stoplight, etc. The womenâs step-through bicycles, both hybrid or mountain, with full size wheels, tend to be more compact, saddle to handlebars, than so-called âmenâs bicyclesâ. |
 | | Often when women who range in height from short to average height are fitted to a bicycle and seem to achieve the proper saddle height they find the bicycle, saddle to handlebars, to be too long because of their shorter torso length. |
 | | Standard middle size road bicycles, 22â for example, tend to have top tubes and seat tubes of approximately the same length, suitable for perhaps a man 5â10â, but generally the top tube is too long for a woman 5â10â. |
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