snipped: "Richard Rose" <rmrose@toast.net> writes: "I assume that only unusually short or long feet would cause an otherwise "normal" frame size / saddle height to not be correct?"
what's "normal"?
you mean a pre-built frame made to cookie cutter
dimension, one firm's 58cm bearing little resemblence
to the one from the next village?!
on the issue of 'fit', the rider's position is more important
(and certainly less yielding...) than trying to reverse engineer
an existing frame to work with it. you can always change a
stem, move a saddle up-down-front-back, etcetera, but you
can't change where the wheels are or alter the center of
gravity once a bicycle is "fitted" to a rider. you can get the
position dialed in but the bicycle may not work well...
e-RICHIE
chester, ct