Proposed Road Bike Brake Lever Measurements for Filipino College Women in Mega Manila Area

This study aims to develop sets of measurements for road bike brake lever that are suitable for Filipino college women in Mega Manila Area. Reaching the brake levers is a common problem among women, who generally have shorter hands. This study wishes to address this issue. Correspondences between anthropometric measurements and brake lever measurements were first established. Relevant hand anthropometric data, together with height, were collected from female students in three colleges in the Philippines to establish the said bike part measurements. Several statistical analyses were conducted. ANOVA was used to check the effect of school and height to hand length. Correlation coefficients were computed to determine the relationship of height to some hand anthropometric measures. Three sets of measurements—small, medium, and large—were computed based on the hand anthropometry. Another group of students tested a prototype of the proposal alongside an existing brand of brake lever. The validation suggested that more students preferred the prototype over the branded bike part, providing a case for the proposed measurements.