Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
It will be an ok fit, not a good or great one. If you want a more upright bike, keep your powder dry, and wait for one. But if you decide to get this bike, get a 50mm stem and SMP TRK saddle. It will be a lot of work to convert that bike over to flat-bar style. If you can do the work yourself it's worth it. Otherwise prolly not. I'd use an FSA Metropolis Bar or the Origin 8 lookalike. Jones bars are a little bit redneck for what you are after. City bar, maybe Moustache bar, is the style I think you are going for. I would take advantage of the fact that you will be using flat bar brake levers to 'upgrade' the calipers to V-Brakes. Those are old style cantilevers on there now. An acquired taste. 650B isn't so much a size of tire as it's a size of wheel diameter. You won't be able to change from 650B tires as long as you keep those wheels (which I recommend you do). I'm eyeballing those tires at 35mm to 40mm wide (and tall), and it looks like wider tires were on there before. There is no good reason to run the fenders so far from the tire. You've got room under there to go to 50mm possibly. The bike shop could tell you for certain.
How do you think the bike is now "as is". Is $800 a fair price? I'm 52 years old and my current bike is a Specialized Hard Rock. I'm fine with that, but it needs work and I'd like to replace it. Down the road I'm concerned about being too hunched over, but ok for now. That's why I was thinking about changing out the handlebars at some point. The stem and saddle you recommended should be done now do you think?