Quick question from MTBer thinking about first road bike.

[GuyWood]

Hi guys, Quick question: I've been an MTBer all my life but am coming around to the idea of a road bike . I know you can't give a definitive answer but I'm 5' 11" and ride an 18-19" mountain bike. What size should I be looking at in a road bike? Many thanks in advance.

 

[Ian Raleigh]

Re: Quick question from MTBer thinking about first road bike

About 23 inch to 23.5 inch frame [seat tube]

 

[GuyWood]

Re: Quick question from MTBer thinking about first road bike

Cheers Ian . May end up buying on here - all budget road bike seem to be ally and I'm a firm believer in 'Steel is real'...

 

[Meejoir]

Re: Quick question from MTBer thinking about first road bike

I'm 5'11 (and a half!) and rode similar sized Kona's for years and when I got my first road bike I got a 56cm frame. The best thing to do would be to have a trip down to your LBS, as they'd give you a pretty good fitting and advice. If you're buying on line, you could put in all your details onto the sizer-upper thing on Canyon's website, that takes into account height, leg length, arm length, size of your current television set and length of shoe laces etc.etc.etc....
Good luck with it!

 

[GuyWood]

Re: Quick question from MTBer thinking about first road bike

Cheers bud .