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Originally Posted by icemilkcoffee
The Tri-A was Nishiki's top of the line steel framed bike. Tange #1 tubing. This is a very nice bike. A big step up from your Norco.

The 190mm crank is not doing you any favors if you ever want to lower your stem and handlebars and get into a more aero position. And your handlebar width is supposed to line up, not with your outside shoulder width, but with your shoulders' forward protruding bones. Nobody makes a 50cm wide drop bar.

There are good reasons why hardly anyone ever made a 190mm crank and absolutely nobody ever made a 50cm drop bar. Are you that much of an outlier body-wise, to require these odd sized components?
Actually more than a couple companies may 50+ cm bars and again crank length is one of those very personal things and is not directly correlated to "aero"
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