Originally Posted by
Dunbar
Here's a picture, I have been raising the seat up to eliminate knee pain. The drop is just an estimate but I have a 31.5" cycling inseam and the frame is 19". I'm only 5'9" so I didn't think a 21" frame made sense. I've thought some sort of stem raiser + some 1.5" riser bars that I could rotate to tweak seat-to-bar length would do the trick.
Without knowing your specific measurements, everything about that picture screams "too small". Typically, you only see that much seatpost showing on the most aggressively sloped MTB frames. I don't think I've even seen the most "extreme" of pro racer setups with so much seatpost.
Compare the amount of extenstion you have on everything with the saddle to handlebar reach, and the whole thing is out of proportion. Unless you have a VERY oddly proportioned body, or a strange medical issue, someone foisted a frame on you that is far too small.
If you have medical issues that require a short ETT and upright geometry, you may be best served by looking into some form of cruiser.