Critique my 3k decision

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Sorry not the best photo. My wife is an beautiful angel not a photographer.

I recently bought a 56cm B2 but feel a little stretched out. My buddy bought a 54cm and I sat on it and played with it a little and felt a little better on it. I have the option to turn my back in and get the 54cm if I need to. The 56cm I have my seat almost all the way forward and when I ran off of it last race my groin area locked up on me a little but I did have a fast bike split. My last bike was road tri conversion so this is definitely steeper. My stem on the 56 is 90 so I do not have much movement options in this set up. The 54cm I can drop the front down, run a longer stem, and have more seat option positions. Long femurs means I need to be careful of the tight cockpit. I have read as much as possible but am by no means a great fitter.

Please look at this picture and give any direction you see fit. Maybe it is OK and I just need to log more miles to get the legs used to the steeper position. It definitely feels and rides faster than my last ride. Help me please.

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Crap! How do I post a picture off of Picasa?

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3k is a bit steep for a box with a red x in it…

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How do I post a picture off of Picasa?

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No idea…

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You didn’t post a picture off of Picassa, you tried to post it off of your hard drive.

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Goto http://www.tinypic.com

Upload the image by following the instructions. Copy the link for “forums” when the photo is done uploading.

Paste the link into your mesage here on slowtwitch using the edit function.

It will appear the next time it gets opened. If it takes up the entire screen and then some, just go to the file in your windows explorer, open it with microsoft Paint, hit stretch/skew and reduce it both vertically and horizontally by 50% and resave it. Then upload it to tinypic again and use that link instead.

Cheers,

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