Bike fit - reach too long?
Hi there,
I am new to road bikes, have been ridden a cross bike / fitness bike with aggressive setup so far. Ordered a road bike with all tools saying I should get the 56 cm size.
It translate to 56 cm seat tube, 56 cm effective horizontal top tube, 393 mm reach and 563 mm stack.
I feel like in this position the reach is too far out. Have taken this sloppy picture, hope it's good enough. The stem is 10 cm long, I feel like shortening it by 1 cm is not enough, and going shorter will affect the bike handling too much ( so I read).
Problem is that the 54 cm size version doesn't look that different, when put into the bikegeocalc visualizer besides the lower stack with 546 mm. Effective reach (front saddle to the handle bar) will be shortened by 8 mm. The 383 mm reach , thus 1 cm shorter reach, is a bit negated by the bigger drop.
Cannot post photo yet, because new here on the forum.