yeah, ride ready would be sweet but it looks like I should be able to get this baby serviceable for short money. The other thing I kinda like is that as long as the frame is solid i want it to look like crap, not as much of a target for thieves!

Here are some of the measurements I took. I believe I took them pretty accurately. Anybody have any thoughts on this geometry?

Seat tube Ctr-Top 59cm
Top Tube length 57cm
Chain Stay length 43.5 cm
Wheelbase CTR-CTR 104cm
Standover Height 83.5cm

According to the fit calculator I need a bike far smaller than I would ahve thought although that was with me taking very crude measurements of myself. But I will say that while I'm tall, I do have kind of a long neck so I would think that sort of artifically makes me tall and means that I don't need quite as big a bike as one would think. Regardless, this should be a fun experiment