So, the bike doesn't fit. Damn.

[KnottedYet]

There is a shop here in Seattle which routinely and repeatedly sells bikes that are far too small.

I hate trying to fit those, because I have to break the news that there is nothing to be done. Someone paid as much as they could afford, the shop put them up on a stand, "fitted" them, and sent them out the door on a bike way too small. (How about a guy over six feet tall on a 50cm frame? How could that shop let him out the door? He paid full price *and* got "fitted" at the shop. "Reamed" is more like it...)

The folks I try to fit who have purchased their tiny bikes from that shop in the last year, I suggest they try to get an exchange from that shop. The ones who have had them longer I send to another shop where they can do a trade-in.

If you have customized your bike a great deal, you can also look into buying a naked frame in your size and transferring your parts to the new frame.

I'm sorry your bike doesn't fit. Maybe you can save it for your kid to grow into?

Can you contact Dreambikes and ask them if they have naked frames? http://dream-bikes.org/articles/loca...hours-pg56.htm Bike projects like theirs run off profits from selling whole bikes and parts and such, and they are a great cause.