Originally Posted by toosahn

I assume it's your Mash? That saddle-to-bar drop is exactly the think that bugs me about my IRO's geometry. It has a 59cm toptube and a 56cm headtube. And since I got my IRO prebuilt, the fork was already cut too short and thus I have a horrible saddle-to-bar drop. I dunno why it seems that many frames are sized in this way rather than having a square type geometry (i.e., 59cm top-tube AND 59cm seat-tube). True, all can be adjusted for with longer steertubes, shorter stems, higher stem angles, etcs. But to me, that's inelegant.