ELITE!!!

While the toptubes of these WSD bikes are shorter, their reach is not shorter. They all combine shorter toptubes with steeper seattube angles, which move the entire toptube forward. So they are really shortening the toptube from the rear, not the front, and the headtube is still equally far away from your saddle (assumingyou have decided on a certain saddle setback) as before. to put it more plainly, if you line up a 43cm Trek WSD and a 48cm Cervelo Soloist with the bb in line, the headtubes will also approximately align. Go figure. Not to mention that women-specific is nonsense anyway, women do not have different body dimensions than men wrt bike fit. Shorter people have different ratios that taller women, and there ar erelatively more women, b ut a woman and a man 5'2" tall have on average the same proportions. So there is no need for WSD, there is a need for properly designing the smaller frame sizes. but of course that doesn't market as nicely as selling WSD. Gerard
Cervélo Cycles
gerard@cervelo.com

Actually, the Elite's are not that bad if you ride steep. The 55cm has a 54 top tube and a 76 degree STA. You ride this one at 78 degrees and the top tube becomes relatively short. For my seat height, moving the saddle to a 78 degree postion is roughly 2cm.

Of course, the stock Yaqui 55 has a 53cm TT, which is perfect for me.

Actually, the Elite's are not that bad if you ride steep. The 55cm has a 54 top tube and a 76 degree STA. You ride this one at 78 degrees and the top tube becomes relatively short. For my seat height, moving the saddle to a 78 degree postion is roughly 2cm.

Of course, the stock Yaqui 55 has a 53cm TT, which is perfect for me.

Is that for the Yaqui? From the web site? If so, that's for the aerolite, which he isn't even making anymore. My specs, taken from the CAD drawing are:

Mariola 55/78Deg - 700c

TT 530mm c-c
HT 95mm (non-integrated)
ST 519.7 c-t
STA 78 degrees

Again, these are stock measurements.