Originally Posted by catapultkid
whats up guys, well im hear doing alittle bit of cycling around the campus and kind of pick this up as a second hobbie for awhile. im in college without much money and ive found a leader frame that is a 50, im 5' 10" and am currently riding a 58-59 kinda big. but its cheap, basically ive found this frame for cheap, but it is too small. i was wondering if gettting a setback post would solve the problem or not? is this a bad idea? or is it possible. i rode a friends 50 spicer and it wasnt that bad, small but doable. yes it is going to be a fixie
lmk what you guys think, thanks
-paul
Ok, fav subject of mine - too small a frame.
Sizing puts me on frames 57-58, I am comfortable on my track bike which is 57 and I see how a 58 will be even better fit. Still, my favorite bike is a 53cm Time Trial one with curved seat tube - making the chainstays 37.5cm and the wheelbase 92.5cm without toe overlap.
The only problem was fitting my grasshopper self in the cockpit - I ride bulhorns on a 115mm stem and I found I am really comfortable with no setback seatpost. This might be related to the fact that the ST angle above the curve is pretty slack.