Just had my maiden voyage on my new baby. Fit appears to be perfect. I'm still recovering from my injury, so only did 23 very slow miles, and it was raining the whole way, but I can already tell, I'm going to love this bike. It's such a different feel from my Gunnar, which I also love. I sorta feel I have my workhorse and my thoroughbred.

The best decision I made was to go from 40 to 38 handlebars. My whole upper body just relaxed, whereas before, I was always pulling my hands back toward me on the bars to get a slightly narrower, comfy position or turning my wrists in, which was causing pressure on my ulnar nerve, and getting some numbness. I've had three fitters wanting to shorten my stem on my Gunnar (was shortened once), saying it was my reach, but it took me 2,000 miles of riding to figure out it had nothing to do with reach. I switched the bars on my Gunnar as well, put back my original, longer stem, and took it for a short spin as well. Same results. My hands/arms just land where they are supposed to, for lack of a better way of phrasing it. I'm really happy.

I'm also liking the shifters and hoods of this older Dura Ace 9-sp. They fit my smaller hands so much better, though the Ultegra doesn't really pose problems.

Anyway, I can't wait to get out again tomorrow. Hope the weather is a bit nicer.