Originally Posted by
BobG
Hah! When I was about 17 years old I retired my Schwinn Varsity and ordered my first high end bike ... a Schwinn Paramount! My local Schwinn dealer said, "Boys your age usually ride a 23" frame" and he ordered one. I was (and still am) about 5'6". I rode the bike maybe two years with the seat as low as it would go right down on the top tube. I sold it to a buddy.
I think it was about 15 years ago my niece bought a high end carbon wonder bike. She told me she was really surprised that she needed a much bigger frame than she used to use, but that is what their expert bike fitter recommended. And she was lucky that she got the last one in the store of that model, she was so lucky that it was her size.
Same as you, seatpost shoved all the way down. Every time I fly out to see her, I see that same bike hanging in the garage with a couple more years of dust on it. She has moved four times since, but still keeps moving that bike from new garage to new garage every time she moves for a new job.