Originally Posted by
DoubleDiamonDog
Staying with the 32" would have meant using 2" dia top tube instead of 1.75" to get the stiffness you needed - any downside to using the 2" instead of the 1.75" to get the 32" you had originally spec'd?\
Downside would have been knee clearance for me, as I tend to pedal with my knees-in. Even with the 1.75" tubes I find that I brush the sides of the top tube now and again, so the 2" would have been problematic as I'm too old to start modifying my pedal stroke. There was also an aesthetics issue associated with going to a 2" top tube and an even more expensive set of couplers, noting the pair of 2" and pair of 1.75" Ti S&S couplers were about $2875.