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alnamvet68 I'm glad you asked; you see, during the Victorian period, there was a shortage of wood, hence, large front wheels on a bicycle were no longer an option, so equally sized front and rear wheels became the norm...consider this man's earliest attempt at environmentalism. That said, why was a bike designed specifically for women, sans a level top tube, well, seeing that it was the Victorian period (and you do know how uptight those blokes were), it was decided that a women should be devoid of every opportunity to pleasure herself, and a women in one of those humongous bustle dresses could easily conceal her prurient interests while stopped and straddling her level top tubed bike. Hence, we have the angular, curved, and low cut bar on a woman's bike, preventing her from doing vile things to herself when cycling. ;)