Fit issues

[Caren]

Oh boy. So it's possible that I'm so embarrassed that I considered not even logging back in this morning. I wound up in the garage late last night going over every inch of the bike, sure that the frame size had to be somewhere. I found a 47 stamped on the bottom of the frame half buried under some routing bracket and then I remembered I have the receipt in my wallet. Here's where my confusion outweighs my embarrassment, if I'm measuring from the middle of the bottom bracket to where the seat tube enters, and the lowest possible point it can go, I get 19 3/4, but if I measure to the bottom of that black "neck", or collar looking thing, then I get 19 1/4". Which obviously means the difference between 48.89 and 50.16. And now I'm just hopelessly confused. 48.89 is closer to 49 than 48, basic math says round up. And 49 (and I measured a bijillion times) is obviously not 47, the number stamped on the bottom and what my receipt shows. Gahh!!!

And that brings me to wondering, if the frame really is a 47, even if it fits like a 49, how much of my "issues" are me just thinking there is some magic unicorn bike? Yeah...like I said, totally embarrassed.

It's the Cyclocross 5 on pg 59 I bought it May 5 of '09 in Dexter, MI