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The road bike I have always seemed to hurt. Trouble is that I was close. I test rode the DF bike and everything felt fine. I'm not against DF either. If I can find the solution later, I'll ride them both. My weight made the bent over position less comfortable than it was in my youth. I could deal with that, but the up and down adjustments just didn't seem to stop the knee pain no matter what. That also in my youth I might have tolerated to an extent, but when you are old you know you don't heal very fast.

I did some checking and the Fuji Newest 3.0 according to Fuji already has 20mm set back in the seat post, and I was already all the way back. A new seat post I priced would have been in the $100 range and maybe + to get to maybe 50 mm of set back. That would give me a little over another inch in adjustment, and that may or may not have been enough. Just standing over the bike, it felt right. Maybe the next size up would have given me better geometry, but it would have made standing over the bike far far closer. I just didn't know enough at the time. I also just may have one of those odd bodies that has an extra long length between my hip and my knee.

I got the EZ Sunray SX for $325 and would have had to spend at least half that to maybe get me to fix the fuji. A crank forward design also might be in the works, but the SX like you said was also thought to be a test to see if I want to get more bent.

The two most important things to me are. 1. Am I hurting to ride and 2. Am I having fun.

So far I am getting the right answers to both.