[CR]1930's: how big/small they rode their frames??

(Example: Framebuilding:Technology)

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:23:36 +0000
From: "Simon PJ" <simonpj@mac.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <c07.2255a1d4.345a33b8@aol.com>
Subject: [CR]1930's: how big/small they rode their frames??

It seems that many of the frames one sees for sale now that date from the 1930's are on the small side - 21, 21.5 inch (c-t) being more common than 23 or 24 inch.

Did they ride their frames smaller then? Or were riders smaller!

The reason that I ask is that at 6 foot tall (with a long torso), 23 or 24 inch is more my size, but I have been tempted into buying and riding frames as small as 21.5 inch.... And I'm tempted again at the moment by a 22 inch frame!

So how 'wrong' would a 22 inch frame have been for a 6 foot rider in the 1930's?

Thanks,

Wyndham Pulman-Jones
Girton, Cambs., UK