Test riding in your size

[pll]

The thing about driving around is that it is hard to compare -- sometimes you end up in a dense urban area, where it is hard to ride in traffic, and then you more attention to not becoming road kill than to how the bike feels. So my dubious thinking was: get the frame, take it to your LBS to put your parts one (the components from one of your current bikes). Test it. Like it? Get a build kit --that site also sells build kits... look under "components". Shipping the frame is cheaper than shipping the entire bike. You could even get more than one frame at a time... What is neat is that you would test it on grounds you know, with wheels and gear you are already familiar with. At that point, you can focus on just the frame qualities.

I definitely missed the "like this" part of a "bike like this". My apologies. The universe makes sense again.

[nuliajuk]

The idea of taking the dimensions of your existing bike and finding a new one with the same dimensions makes sense.
If you can find a Look dealer, I'm pretty sure all Look models are available as frames only. I don't know how the racier ones feel, but I absolutely love my 566. It feels like it wants to go fast, so I find myself riding much longer and harder that I otherwise would, yet it's extremely comfortable over our cracked and broken roads.