I am a novice at biking and buying bikes. I just bought my first value road bike in a Long time from bikesdirect.com. I used some online charts to arrive at the size of 58cm for my road bike, which I now have learned is the "center to top" seat tube length.

So I got my bike and put it together, it's great, beautiful, I can't wait to start riding. First ride it feels a little big. So I started researching and using some calculators, they all say about the same thing: inseam x .67 which for me turns out to be 54cm.

I am 6 feet and 32 inch inseam, a 54cm bike just seems to small. I really don't want to try to repackage the bike, ship it back, and wait multiple weeks to go down to a 56cm for example, if it's not really that important.

What would you recommend?

Thanks a lot!!