Originally Posted by
RickGr4
I love the bike so far. I know the biking purists will flame me but I have tried bikes with drop down bars and they simply don't work for me. I am 55 years old, 6'3 and I weigh about 250. Most of my height is from my waist on up. I do 5 to 25 mile exercise runs. I have tried but I cannot find a comfort zone on a bike with drop down bars.
IMO, the challenge for someone your height looking for a drop bar road bike is to get the the height and the reach of the bars just so. I have a friend who just went through this and to his chagrin, gave up and decided to stick with his (very) old 27" frame road bike. It looks like your FastRoad has some sort of extra tall stem to get your bars as high as they need to be.