Clem von Jones

You need to measure the saddle to bar reach of the bike you currently use and compare it to the new bikes. Salsa website lists the reach of its bikes, which is what all bike sellers should do, but you'll have to call BD and ask them to measure it for you. You might be unsure about the comfort of your current ride in which case it likely is too stretched out but you haven't diagnosed the problem. If it's too cramped it's hard not to notice. You can measure the tip of the saddle to the center of the bars and guess what amount of reach will be comfortable, more or less, but even 15mm can mean the difference between comfort and pain. Fortunately you can easily change the reach with a new stem and they aren't expensive but if you get a bike frame and it's too large you'll never achieve the reach you need with drop bars and then must resort to swapping out the bars for flat swept-back bars. It seems to me the only way you can be certain about reach is first-hand knowledge by trial and error. You try stems that are too short and some that are too long and by this method find the exact sweet spot. The dimension of pedal to saddle length or top tube height isn't that important when determining what bike to buy. You can easily adjust that dimension by raising or lowering your saddle. If the bike you end up buying has a saddle post that's too short then you buy a longer post. If the top tube height is a problem then you've chosen a frame way too large.