This may or may not be a helpful datapoint in your search. I have/had two Black Mountain Road bikes in 59cm. One was at my home and the other lives at my Mom's house. There was a semi-desperate WTB post recently on iBob and I went ahead and sold one of my two 59cm Black Mountain Road frames. That freed up a spot in my stable for a Leo R. I was between a 54 and a 57. I'm 5'10" with a ~86cm PBH. I consulted with Cory and he set the 54 and the 57 demo bikes up with my saddle height and emailed me photographs of both. The 54 looked weird, in my opinion and the 57 looked like a nice civilized setup. The stack is about an inch higher than what I normally run, so I might end up with my stem slammed, or I might end up more comfortable than ever before. I'm picking up my Leo Roadini on Wednesday. It will be wearing a pretty light build kit, so it'll be interesting to see if it's feasible to have a 20 pound Leo.
Data point of one. Between sizes, I chose to go bigger *Bill Lindsay* El Cerrito, CA On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 7:45:49 AM UTC-7, Dave Grossman wrote: > > I will surely give him a call. I have a feeling the 61 is going to be the > way to go. Every time I find a frame that I think will work for me stack > and reach wise I go back to thinking, why am I looking around when the > Roadini already exists. It is so ridiculous that such a simple steel road > bike with standard threadings and parts can be so outside the box for > sizing these days. And when I find something in the price range of the > Roadini, like the barrage of used titanium road frames on eBay, I come back > to three main points: > > 1 Max clearance on most of those is at best, a 28, which is nothing on > the Roadini. > > 2. I will really be pushing the limits of what I want for stack and reach > and compromising perhaps the most important aspect of a bike for me these > days, comfort. Seems kind of silly. > > 3. I am not going to crit race anytime soon. Nuff said. > > The BMC road disc is pretty sweet. Not opposed to discs at all, but > honestly, it still doesn't have the all day stack and reach comfort of the > Roadini. Seems like I keep coming back to that. I've owned enough bikes > over the years to know that I've been on too many ill fitting bikes to make > that compromise again. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
