Before we declare the frame to short we should perhaps realize where he wants to position the handlebars.
Why would we consider the frame to small if he's trying to put the bars at or above the saddle. I've got a XO-3 with a Technomic stem showing 4-5".
Any bigger frame and the top tube would be to long.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.