Originally Posted by cobrabyte

Besides the advice of getting fitted, the rest of your post is uninformed speculative gibberish. Seriously. You're operating on assumptions. The part I bolded in particular...it's obvious you are basing your uninformed opinion on the few bits of info you've picked up in your short few weeks on these forums and are now an "expert" right? State "designs" their bikes by figuring out what sells (gimmmicky "model" names and pretty hipster colors) and then asks a factory overseas to produce it. They use chaep no-name components, and their products are generic and trite. Hardly worth the praise you're showing them.