Is bike retro-fitting worth it?

[Miranda]

My Candy girl is a little too big for me. I went with short stem, a 60 with no rise. It sucked at first, it was twitchy, for sure. Now I'm used to it so it doesn't bother me. You can also get away with a fair bit of moving your saddle around. Knee over spindle isn't the end of the world. Also consider a seat post with zero setback.

I get crap about my bike but ya know, it's what I can afford right now so I make do.

Thx for chiming in. I know what you mean about the $. This was not exactly the time I had planned. It usually takes me a while to think about anything. So I was in the carbon bike research stage. Not, buy now. But, I just look at my bike and go "ick". Not, "yea! let's go for a ride". It's kinda killed my will to ride. I highlighted the twitchy part because that was really insightful info. I was wondering how the shorter stem would ride. That's a good comment for me to make to the fitter.