Need road bike fit help - I'm getting desperate!

[Cataboo]

How long have you been riding your trek?

My suggestion would be if you can get a used road bike in your size, do that for a while...

I just started road biking last year, and for the first however long... I was just uncomfortable, too much weight on my wrists, too much whatever... And I'd say about a year later that I'm now okay with longer reaches on bikes that last year I would have considered too stretched out. Part of it is just building up your core muscles. And really you gotta start putting mileage on your bike to really realize okay, this is bad and won't work. If I change something on a bike, then I go for a 20-50 mile ride, and at the end of that ride I can definitely tell you whether or not something will work or not, but it may not be obvious to me in the first 10 miles.

Wrist positioning is tricky - and I wouldn't take it as bad fit if you have wrist numbness on the bike - lots of that is getting the weight off your wrist, the angle of the wrist, sometimes its your bike gloves (if i use pearl izumi bike gloves without ripping the padding out, my wrists will go numb in 5 minutes) .

So I'd hesitate to tell you to drop a lot of cash on a bike before you get a lot of experience on a road bike and really know what you want out of it - bike fit kind of depends on "do you want to ride in a racers position?" or "do you want to ride in an upright position?" Because what the bike ends up at will change depending on that answer. So maybe if you do get fit, see if its something that can be set up more aggressively over time if you want. theoretically a good bike fitter will be able to guide you in all of this.