What bike is it? I can't think of any tri bikes that fit *anyone* well who is 6'6 with a typical morphology.I don't think there are 5. At your height, it's frame stack, then frame stack, then frame stack, then frame reach, and finally seatpost angle.The Argon is a better fit than the Felt. And the Felt is a (much?) better bike. Without looking at your fit and fit coordinates (so take this with a grain of salt because I have limited data), someone your height generally has two decent options, IMO:
1. Scott Plasma
2. Specialized Shiv

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Trent Nix
Owned and operated Tri Shop
F.I.S.T. Advanced Certified Fitter | Retul Master Certified Fitter (back when those were things)

OK, you're 6'6", but are you more or less average proportioned, or do you have unusually long legs/shorter torso or vice-versa? I would think either one of the latter might make things a bit difficult on a 58cm. Top tube length would obviously be important as even offset posts and longer stems go only so far, especially if you do have a long torso. Head tube length would also come into play as you will need to be sitting decently high on the seatpost and a shorter head tube forces you to bend farther down, as you can only use so many spacers. In my mind the head tube angle and fork rake are also important since you would be a big guy on a smallish frame, and really steep angles may make the bike really twitchy and unstable. I know that's not 5, but those, at least as I see it, are really important.

Kestrel Talon 60cm. I use a PRO base with t4+ bars, my pads are dropped additionally by use of J4 brackets. I use a 130mm stem.



Ha, right? I know, the science of fit goes so far beyond a "top 5" list, and I respect that. My hopes of this thread was to not fit myself to a sale, but to start trying to narrow my options. If I need to quit drooling over X bike because it's just never going to happen, better sooner than later.



Love them both. Both have very good reviews from ST. Both have great componentry options and in the 5-6k spending area, would provide what I'm looking for. But can a string bean dial in a fit, that's the question.



Both are on my list, I appreciate throwing some "tall" selections out there.


Crankyneck, thanks for weighing in. I have a 34in inseam. In terms of proportion, I'm fairly normal regarding legs, torso, arms. Just oversized on each in comparison to average joe. From what I was told my seat height to pad level is by average pretty aggressive though it may not seem so much when you see me riding due to my size. One of the factors on say the IA or the Targon e119 that I liked and thought may work in my favor is the large range of forward or more importantly, backward seat adjustment. The Kestrel Talon I guess is somewhere between a road bike and a tri bike, it's a non aggressive seat tube angle, and my fitter has my seat set pretty far forward. On one of these 58cm bikes in theory, my seat can be pushed back to meet the same location.

But then it comes to reach, will the spread be within my fit length.

Tall people. Good times.

I've attached a picture from this season with my current fit on the Kestrel.

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Regards,
J. Smith

It looks like your saddle could be raised quite a bit.