Originally Posted by alanbikehouston

If you ride for enjoyment, pleasure, or commute to work surrounded by motor vehicles, you are better off riding with your hands as high, or higher than the top of your saddle. A guy who is 5'10" can set up a size 59 or size 60 bike with the bars as high as the top of the saddle. But, on a size 54 bike, his hands are likely to end up at least two inches too low. He will look cool. He will look fast. And, in a couple of hours, his neck will hurt like heck.