Originally Posted by
thejohnreyes
I drove up to Oklahoma City to buy this Miami Vice and another Expert. The ad said 54 CM which is my height. In all of my excitement, I didn’t measure the bike and it turns out it’s a 58 CM. 🤬 The funny thing is I didn’t notice it until I built it and started washing it. I was scrubbing it and I thought, huh this is big for 54 CM. 🤦🏻♂️
That appears to have the same proportions as my '89 Expert (smoke white/blue), which measures 57cm center-to-center along the seat and top tubes. I'm 5'11", 33" inseam, and it suits me. Most comfortable of my three road bikes.
The nominal specs for Ironmen puzzles me because I can't find any standard tube measurement method that equals 56 or 58 cm.
Anyway, my rough gauge is three fingers between the frame pump peg and downtube.