Ian,
First, thanks for all of the great responses to this thread, I’ve learned a ton just reading through the previous responses, and your willingness to help all of us make the best decision concerning which size to purchase is awesome.
I'm currently riding a 2011 Trek Speed Concept 7.0, size large, and when I was fit a few years ago, the fitter advised me that the bike was slightly small for me, but he was able to make it work. I've done a number of olympic distance and one half IM on the bike without any issues, but it does feel a bit cramped.
I'm looking at a Speedmax CF 8.0, not a disc although they look awesome, and I've put my height and inseam measurement in the sizer widget on canyon.com, and if I go on the high side it tells me large and if I go the low side it tells me medium, so I guess must be right on the edge for general sizing? I didn't get any "measurements" written down when I had my fitting, so I'm hoping I did the measurements correctly here to give you enough information to let you do what you do, but if something looks wrong, its probably user error.
Height is 185.5
Inseam 86.5
Pad X 429 (Middle of pad)
Pad Y 675
Saddle Height is 775 mm, stem is stock, and there are 40 mm of spacers under the stem.
In road bikes, I typically like a larger frame when I'm on the edge, but wasn't sure if that was a good idea here or not? So thanks in advance for any suggestions you can give!
First, thanks for all of the great responses to this thread, I’ve learned a ton just reading through the previous responses, and your willingness to help all of us make the best decision concerning which size to purchase is awesome.
I'm currently riding a 2011 Trek Speed Concept 7.0, size large, and when I was fit a few years ago, the fitter advised me that the bike was slightly small for me, but he was able to make it work. I've done a number of olympic distance and one half IM on the bike without any issues, but it does feel a bit cramped.
I'm looking at a Speedmax CF 8.0, not a disc although they look awesome, and I've put my height and inseam measurement in the sizer widget on canyon.com, and if I go on the high side it tells me large and if I go the low side it tells me medium, so I guess must be right on the edge for general sizing? I didn't get any "measurements" written down when I had my fitting, so I'm hoping I did the measurements correctly here to give you enough information to let you do what you do, but if something looks wrong, its probably user error.
Height is 185.5
Inseam 86.5
Pad X 429 (Middle of pad)
Pad Y 675
Saddle Height is 775 mm, stem is stock, and there are 40 mm of spacers under the stem.
In road bikes, I typically like a larger frame when I'm on the edge, but wasn't sure if that was a good idea here or not? So thanks in advance for any suggestions you can give!