Originally Posted by Russ Roth

Pay attention to geometry, I'd looked at this one for a drop bar conversion. 57.2cm top tube ctc for the captain seems a little nutty to me for the small size, jumps to 59cm for the medium. At 5'10 I often think of myself as riding a medium but I just sold my c-dale tandem since I couldn't get decent steering with the short stem I needed to match a drop bar to a 58cm top tube. Most mediums road bikes tend towards 54cm which for me is great with a 100mm stem but a 59 top tube on the medium would mean a 50mm stem and that's short to run a drop bar on the road with.