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Strange Boardman sizing….

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  • July 7, 2015 at 4:40 pm #24388
    teefin1

    I bought a Boardman Road bike today, size 53cm according to the website.

    According to the website geometry the top tube should be 54cm , mine measures 55.5 (which is the measurement shown for the larger size) but the guy i spoke to on the phone says that the more accurate measurement is the seat tube.

    The seat tube DOES measure 53ish cm but the website states that for then 53cm frame it should measure 51.5cm

    I did also point out that it says the stem should be 100cm but mine is 110cm.

    Have they sold me the wrong size or am I mistaken?

    Apologies for confusing post, and thanks for any help.

    🙂

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  • July 8, 2015 at 10:11 am #852965
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    teefin1

    Haha, Sorry, I meant 110mm. I
    Haha, Sorry, I meant 110mm. I like to think I have fairly evenly proportioned limbs! Even so, the 53 is said to come with a 100mm stem and mine definitely has 110mm.

    Im a hair over 5’7 so it does seem that the frame is a little bigger than I need if its equivalent to a 56 frame in other brands.

    My husband’s bike is a 57 and there isn’t a lot of difference when I tested them both yesterday.

    So i suppose I should take it back and ask for the smaller size. Its confusing as the guy effectively told me to ignore the geometry info on their website as staff find measuring the seat tube length more effective than going by the top tube length.

    July 8, 2015 at 9:33 am #852963
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    sergius

    110 cm stem? Wow you must
    110 cm stem? Wow you must have arms like an orangutan 🙂

    July 8, 2015 at 8:30 am #852961
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    stevie63

    It is because Halfords use a
    It is because Halfords use a different sizing method from the one on the Boardman website as they take the sizing from the seattube length so their 53cm is the medium which is equivalent to a 56cm from other brands and their 51.5cm is like a 54cm which is the size that it sounds like you were after.

    As the other poster said Halfords seem to have form in selling bigger bikes than people need. We did a cycle2work style scheme at work and all three staff that visited Halfords were told they needed a size that was at least 1 size too big.

    July 8, 2015 at 4:23 am #852959
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    Nixster

    Sounds very much like the
    Sounds very much like the wrong size.

    If it’s from Halfords they’ve tried to persuade me on a number of occasions that a bike that is clearly too big for me is fine, curiously mostly when the smaller one is out of stock.

    July 7, 2015 at 6:19 pm #852957
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    StraelGuy

    That definitely sounds like
    That definitely sounds like you may have the next size up from what you ordered 😕 .

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