Originally Posted by
marqueemoon
The wheel decals are really distracting on this one. I would remove them.
I would have gone with the 55 if available and run a setback post and longer stem. Not a whole lot of seatpost showing there and the stem looks like 80 or 90mm. You could get to a pretty similar position with your bars running a stem with less drop and a shorter spacer stack which would look better and also stiffen up the front end. Play around with the "compare" feature of this and see what you come up with.
http://www.brightspoke.com/t/bike-stem-calculator.html
Alas the decals are under a clearcoat but I actually don't mind them all that much.
55cm wasn't available. I think I'm going to nudge the seatpost up a little more before my next ride. I'm still getting the fit dialled in. I have a proper bike fit session in a week's time so I'll get it perfect then.
As for the stem, I just really, really hate the aesthetics of stems with rise on frames with horizontal top tubes. I'm thinking I'll probably switch to compact drops soon since I have smallish hands and I'm not keen on these current bars, so when I've made that change and gone through the fit session I should be able to tidy up the steerer a little.