>>1919327>Is this just some marketing scheme?Yes. Two bikes of the same style of the same nominal size between two brands have far more significant geometry differences than two randomly selected male/female specimens of the same height. If bike companies really wanted to cater to women they'd offer a stem swap or a crank arm swap as a default option, but instead they play up completely irrelevant shit like headtube length (which means jack shit without context) or the color of the paint.
Even the much-hyped saddle width is just a question of sliding the saddle fore/aft in most cases, that's how everyone else does it but somehow we need special feminine saddles with pink stitching because all black saddles are misogynistic and basically a kind of rape.
>you have been permanently banned from /r/bicycling/ 