Originally Posted by
Inertianinja
I'm fine in my drops, but I haven't gotten a real pro fit.
My hesitation to go compact is that I feel like drops should be DROPS, not just something where I move my hands down a few cm. I don't give a crap about whether they look pro, but the fact that pros use deep drop indicates to me that they want something that lets them get down and aero. That's why I went 150mm for now.
actually they don't. the most popular models are the ritchey classic (135mm), deda newton shallow (135mm), and 3T rotundo (139mm). only the FSA energy T (145mm) is a deep drop. remember, we are talking about just 1.5cm here.
here's how pros(& a lot of people) actually get aggressive setups: a head tube of 13cm or less for a frame with a TT of 54cm, a -17 stem to make the stem parallel to the ground, and often riding a size down to get even shorter headtube and compensating for reach by having ridiculously long stems (12cm or longer). furthermore, an aggressive setup means nothing if it hunches you up as that will subsequently prevent your lungs from expanding to its maximal volume.