Quote Originally Posted by surlypacer View Post
My SO, who worked at bike shops for years and years, rides a Gunnar Roadie and he thinks it's a great riding frame for the money!

Last year I was thinking of having a custom Gunnar Sport frame made for me. I ride a tiny frame, 50cm effective top tube. At the time the custom frames were about $1200. The smallest production Sports have 650c wheels. I wanted 700c wheels.

Last fall I found an ebay auction for someone's tiny custom Sport frame for 700c wheels. Seems a guy had it built for his gf and she just wasn't into riding. Pretty much my size too. I went after it with a stupid high max bid. Got the frame with a Reynolds Ouzo Pro carbon fork shipped to my door for $285. Wowza.
This worked out great! I will have to start checking on a few bikes this way. I take a pretty small bike as well, my 46cm LHT has a 515mm effective top tube. It looks like I might take their second smallest size in the Sport or the Fast Lane.

Pity that my reach wasn't longer, I could take a wider range of sizes...