I am going to pull the trigger and get a Cervelo Soloist Team…
I have had 3 different opinions on which size so I thought I would throw it out there to see how other people sized…
6’1" 33"/34" inseam
Torso - short
Arm length 28"
Feet to sternum - 60"
I currently ride a Scott Plasma (L) 56 - fits very well.
56 or 58?
Previous road bike was a Giant TCR Advance in Large with 120mm stem - fit very well.
Thanks!
i’m nearly your exact size & I ride a 58cm soloist with a 110mm negative 6 degree stem, no spacers. perfect. You could ride a 56cm with a longer stem, it would be a tad lower in the front (maybe thats good for you) but you’d be showing a TON of seatpost.
I’ve set it up as a tri bike as well, with a 90mm stem & forward-flipped saddle, it worked fine although my position wasnt very low in front.
Thanks…one of the opinions were your exact comments. Do you ride it for tri’s and put an aero set-up on or just use the drops?
i would go 58 for sure. i’m a smidgeon under 6 feet and have a soloist slc and a team soloist both in 56 and every once and a while i wonder if they are too small for me, but i like them tight. i do all road racing with them, no tris.
58 should fit you perfectly.
If you are 6’1" with a 33/34" inseam, that doesn’t seem like a very short torso (are you measuring inseam with the “jam a 1” wide book into your crotch" method?)
As a point of reference, I have a 34.5" inseam, am 5’10", and am on a 54 soloist.
I am going to pull the trigger and get a Cervelo Soloist Team…
I have had 3 different opinions on which size so I thought I would throw it out there to see how other people sized…
6’1" 33"/34" inseam
Torso - short
Arm length 28"
Feet to sternum - 60"
I currently ride a Scott Plasma (L) 56 - fits very well.
56 or 58?
Previous road bike was a Giant TCR Advance in Large with 120mm stem - fit very well.
Thanks!
Thanks to Cervelo’s use of “stack” and “reach” in their geometry charts, you should be able to figure this out on your own.
Take a horizontal and vertical measurement from the BB to the center of the bar tops on your old bike. Then, look at the geometry chart and figure out what stem length and number of spacers you’d need (don’t forget the headset bearing cap height) to get your bars in the same position on the frames sizes you’re considering. Compare the horizontal measurement to the “reach” number and the vertical measurement to the “stack”. Typically, one of the sizes will “jump out” as the size that will get you the proper “stack” and “reach” with a reasonable length stem.
Don’t worry about the seat measurement (for sizing the frame, that is - it’s still good to have for setting up the bike.) If you get the front end worked out, there’ll be plenty of adjustment range for the seat to get that in the right spot as well.
If you don’t have the old bike anymore…then perhaps you could look up the geometry of you old bike and figure it out…but that’s a bit more math. Might be easier to just find a shop that has the bikes and throw a leg over…
Just my 2 pesos.
Sorry…with that method it measures about a 36…pant inseam is 33/34…I should have stated that…thanks.
Thanks…unfortunately the only dealer in my immediate area has a 56 and not the 58.
Thanks…unfortunately the only dealer in my immediate area has a 56 and not the 58.
So go try the 56. If you have the old bike to compare to, you can just hold them BB to BB and see. If not, hop on and if it feels too small with a reasonable length stem, look at the difference in the “reach” number in the geometry chart and see if the 58 will make up the difference. Hope that helps…
I am 6’, 33 inseam and ride a 54 with a 130 stem. lots of post showing 
“fit” is a subjective concept (even around here).
FWIW, my “rules of fit” start like this (I posted this the other day too):
these dimensions haven’t changed for me for some time (above is actually a TT setup, not the road). but when moving to another frame, start here. then as a rule of thumb, I try to keep the stem between 100-130 as outside of those dimensions (I find) that steering gets too fast or too slow.
as an example, I recently moved from a 57cm c40 (11.5cm stem) to my winter bike 54cm (130cm stem). liked so much that when I got the soloist sl went with the 54/130 combo again (and saved some weight).
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Yeah if your inseam measured that way is 36 then you’re just like me, 33/34 when you buy pants but 36 up to the hilt. I have since bought a 56cm P2 carbon to use in triathlons, but I rode the Soloist both ways. First, I had two saddles & two seat-post heads so I could make the change to ride steep in 5 minutes flat, just flip the saddle & pop my clip-ons onto the drop bars (FSA WingPro aluminum bars in 31.8 accomodate clip-ons nicely.) Then later on for the summer season I threw on Profile bullhorns & s-bends and turned it into a full tri setup seen below. I bought the P2C in order to keep the Soloist in full Road mode & have a tri bike that could get me lower.
im 6’3 and I have a 61 cm, soloist team, it fits pretty well.
matt-
check it out
I’m similar size, with shorter legs than you.
I’m on a 58. Fits nicely with a 110mm -8deg stem and deep drop traditional bars - but I could just as easily be on a 56 with a different stem and shallower bars. Like you, my local dealer didn’t have everything in stock when I went to buy, and I liked this bike enough. Given that I have a longer torso, relatively speaking, the 58 works just fine, although for the coolness factor I wish I had more seatpost showing.
For you, I’d probably go with the 56.
I did see that…thanks…
Well I’m just a hair over 6’1" and my inseam is about 35in (book in crotch method). I tried the soloist carbon in a 56 and like you I was kind of on the fence. I could have ridden the 56 but it would have required long stem and quite a lot of drop. I ended up buying another bike but if I bought the soloist, it probably would have been a 58cm.