Originally Posted by Dial_tone

I am not a fan of the silver deep dish rims so I am going black.

On a downer note - even though I knew the Flyte top tube was 2cm shorter than my custom steel top tube, the actual distance from the seat tube to the center of the handlebars is 3cm shorter! That's over an inch less and it is noticeable. When I stand in the drops my wrists hit the bar curves enough to make me sit down, not that I ride the drops much. I'm beginning to think the only way to get a frame i'm comfy with is to go custom again. Production bikes my size just don't have what I need. I was prepared to give up 1cm but not 3cm. I am now shopping for 13cm stems and a Fizik Arione saddle with longer rails.

Sadly, the QS2-S geometry is equally disagreeable and I'm leaning toward dropping out of the buy. If Flyte would auction an SRS-2 I would try one of those.