I don't have any stand over on my bike. It doesn't bother me, because as Deb says, I am always stopping with one foot clipped in and leaning. My top tube is sloping and the right size, supposedly. I feel fine on the bike, not stretched out, but I still don't have comfortable descending in the drops. I have the brakes shimmed, but I really can't get my whole hand around the brakes when in the drops; I can get 2-3 fingers, which apparently seems fine to people at my lbs. I don't know if it's me, since I was too timid to descend in the drops when I had my first road bike, which was woman specific and smaller. Now I just have bad habits that I can't break! But I notice that most of the newer wsd bikes have way different handle bar designs that seem closer and shaped more appropriately for me.
My bike was very expensive and I was stupidly swayed by the people at the shop and didn't test any other bikes. In fact, I didn't test any other bikes when I bought my other 2 road bikes. I won't be getting a new one soon. I love the feel and lightness of it, so there are positives.



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