Originally Posted by
tangerineowl
5' 9.5"/34" here. My experience was exactly the same when I first went through the bike shop sales thing. Everyone said 54-56; they just looked at your height.
My ideal is a 360mm reach; generally found in a 52.
It's interesting, isn't it? When I had a fit done, the guy doing it kept commenting on how small my bike was --but in the end he realized it was right for me. He was obsessed with how tall I was!
We're in the same ballpark with reach--my domane with the 100mm stem is 370 ish. We have very similar proportions!