Looking at your stem, headtube spacers, and you comments, looks like you should haev gone Med minimally, maybe even large

Maybe a MED, I'm only 5'10" with long arms so the large would be way to large for me. I'm actually still losing the gut/tummy at the moment, when the rest goes away my fitter said I'll be lower in the front & back a bit, he suggested not getting rid of the stem it came with in case in 6 months time I want to put it back on.
I bought the small cause options were a small or large, no MED's in the country.

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I don't think I have seen armrests directly over the front hub before(funky handling issue). some of this is photo angle and bike not level, but the pads look way out there. 3cm more stack and 2.5 more reach don't look to be out of your range.

My latest build:

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Really, really nice bike, well played.

I don't think it is. Or if it is, it's not a Mavic io...

 
Here is my new ride and first triathlon bike...

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Not race wheels, those don't have tires this time of year ;)

Well done, sir.

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Great first tri bike. You will Love it! But then again, I'm quite biased.

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nice! How did you acquire a DA2 with mech shifting?

it's a DA4 replacement. Original showed up with a couple of large paint chips and they replaced it with warranty frame. warranty specific paint scheme I am told and I am guessing they painted the warranty ones close to the DA2 to keep those customers happy. The original scheme was growing on me, but I like this better.

as much as it pains me...soon to be up for grabs on the ol' classifieds...maybe... (ONLY because I have one too many and planning for an IRON-less season this year.)

I just went at looked, the front of the pads are directly in line with the front hub so my weight is behind the hub 5cm or so. The key thing to note is this only a temp setup at the moment, I've still got another 10kg /5cm (28kg down so far...) off the waist line to lose in which case I'll be able to bend over lower to remove that spacer under the stem and reduce from the 120mm stem to a 100mm one. I can flex over there but the folds in my tummy make it uncomfortable to ride currently.

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Looks good! Now sprint it to a pool already. ;-)

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Felt DA3
Not with race weels..............808 - 1080
http://twitpic.com/80ddig

Right, that you were. I was neither long enough or a good enough bike handler for that setup.... Gone is the 130mm stem and it's been replaced with a 100mm (stock was 90mm) which has bought the pads right back, fixed the twitchy handling and made my shoulder blades not hurt any more!

Here's an updated shot with her sitting on her HED Jet 60's, SRM and Garmin fitted. For those of you who are wondering what a good fitter can do when tweaking your ride from what you thought was good? I did a 1 hour session before and after getting the fit on this bike dialed in at saw a 19% uplift in power....

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Well your fit was pretty horrendous before so that's not saying much... ;)

Bike looks sweeet.

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It felt good when I sat on it in the shop, the pain only started after 15-20 minutes :) All sorted now though.

Cheers :D

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I might love this bike.