Originally Posted by
Blutarsky
Thanks a ton for the info, and confirms my gut feeling. Frankly, the wheels/tires just flat out look small. What I can't figure out is that it's a 56cm bike, it that considered "small?" We'll see how broken Japanese works at the LBS finding tires... ;-)
Its not the size of the bike that determines the wheel size, it is the design of the bike. I have a 56cm frame bike that has 650c wheels, and that was how it came from the factory. It is a triathlon bike.
I would consider a 56cm frame size to be "medium".