After the first ride, I swapped the original SR CRE seatpost (short, 80s style) for a similar looking but much longer SR Laprade, raising the saddle a cm in the process. Last night I rode it again - MUCH better! No longer felt like a BMX bike! But, after a dozen or so miles, the Rolls was making a hot spot where no hot spot should be, and that was leading to me hunching my back instead of rolling my pelvis forward, so the Rolls has got to go. And I still plan to replace the original stem and bars.
Maybe I should put them on the 22" frame. Then I could acquire all the Sante bits to restore IT to original spec, and then sell it. If I get $400, I'll only have lost hundreds of dollars!!!
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