Originally Posted by
noodle soup
Big bikes are going to have big head tubes. There's no getting around it, and a 62cm frame would look stupid with a 180mm head tube.
Totally slammed bikes with a flat headset cap and no spacers look pretty silly(IMO).
Absolutely, and if you need a big frame, there's not much you can do about that.
I'm lucky that I can ride a 56/57/58, so the proportions usually look good, even with a "taller" endurance geo headtube. I'm going from a 163mm headtube with 20mm of spacers/cap, to a 185mm headtube with no spacers and just the headset cap. I said smallest, but not sure if I want to do the totally flat cap, it comes with a 10mm cap, might just leave that, or see if I can find a 5mm.