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Thanks for advice all,
Thanks for advice all, especially the stuff about flint.Also used BW. Checks your
Also used BW. Checks your flexibility, then gets you on the bike and mostly goes off measurements of angles at different joints of the body. Gave me some exercises to do and was completely open to me returning to adjust things if I wasn’t totally happy. The fit has relieved some of my back problems although not completely got rid of them, but they were honest that a fit alone can’t solve everything if the body isn’t right (in my case a weak core).Safe to say they were a little bit skeptical of Retul and considered it a bit too rigid a methodology. That said I have met one of the guys from Bike Science at a fit taster session and he seemed to be pretty tuned into the fact that a fit cannot solve all your problems.
I’m 6’6″ with a 95cm inseam
I’m 6’6″ with a 95cm inseam and I have a Canyon Roadlite in size 3XL which is a 64.5cm, I think the Merida looks significantly too small in a 56cm.When I was shopping for a new bike last year I would go into shops who only had frames that went up to a 60cm and if I asked them if it was big enough they would say “of course – you can just have lots of seatpost showing”. You could do that on the 56cm Merida but the stack may not be big enough, so your handlebars could be way below your saddle even with spacers, meaning you’d be quite bent over and in quite an aggressive, racy position. I think they were just making do and trying to sell me the closest thing they had.
Having had a professional fit from a very experienced fitter he advised me that getting a bike with a big head tube and stack was paramount to getting a comfortable position. The head tube on the Merida 59cm (they don’t list the frame measurements for a 62cm on their website) looks more like it to me. Not sure just who the 62cm is designed for if it’s too sizes too big for you. In my experience the problem was that most manufacturers don’t cater for blokes our size. That said, it is easier to make a small bike bigger than a big bike smaller.
For comparison (and I realise we could be completely different shapes, I’m more legs than arms) my bike measurements are (in mm): Seat-tube 645, top tube 603, head tube 250, stack 656, reach 409 and I swapped the supplied 120mm stem for a 100mm due to slightly short arms for my height.
Even if you are only interested in the Merida, if possible go to some other shops and see what they recommend as a comparison. Also bear in mind that a bike might feel fine in the space of a few minutes but may turn out to be a completely different story in practice.
