If you've ever sat in the on-topic wooden grandstand seats at Fenway Park (circa 1934) you will know that people were much smaller then.? At 5'10" I get sore knees from a 3 and 1/2 hour game.
Steve Shaw Millbury, MA where it is 67 degrees on Halloween.
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Phillips <altinos@gmail.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 5:01 pm Subject: Re: [CR]1930's: how big/small they rode their frames??
On 10/31/07, Simon PJ <simonpj@mac.com> wrote:
> 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!
Sort of related...Near me we have the Henry Ford Museum, and occasionally they'll have exhibits of older cars. One car from the 1930's had a chicken for a hood ornament, I forgot the actual brand name of the car. It was tiny! At 6'2" 240lbs I could not have hoped to fit in the thing without a crow bar, let alone actually drive the thing. The owner said in general people were a lot smaller then, so tiny cars were fairly normal. I sat in a Model T and it was cramped. I'd say people were just smaller then.
Eric Phillips
Southfield, MI
USA