Hi Brian -- I'm somewhere around 5'2" or 5'3" and consider myself to have relatively short legs and a relatively longer torso, but my PBH is probably about 72cm. I agree with others that your friend's PBH should be re-checked.
Because of my height and PBH, I haven't found standover to be a very useful measurement. The smallest available commercial frames (48cm) tend to work in terms of standover, but are just hitting the limit of top-tube length. I would recommend paying more attention to effective top-tube length than anything else. In terms of road bikes, I have a 48cm modern steel frame with a 50.5cm effective top tube that just fits me (just feeling the tiniest smidge too stretched out, but manageable). My new Saluki (47cm) apparently has an effective top tube of 52.0cm, but that seems to fit very well, thus proving that seat-tube and head-tube angles really do matter... (These are both set up as road bikes, of course...) Hope those data points help. -- Liz S. On Monday, September 9, 2013 10:48:01 PM UTC-4, stonehog wrote: > > I need some advice for those of you on the short side (sub 70cm PBH). I am > building a bike for a friend who is 5'2" and has a 67cm PBH. She wants a > bike for knee surgery recovery, exercise, and potentially a triathlon every > few years. I am steering towards a San Marcos 47cm, but don't see stand > over measurements. Anyone have one of these and a tape measure? > > Brian Hanson > Seattle, WA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
