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OK well to answer your question isn't really giving advice about the bike being sold, so a few forumers might fairly complain that the thread shouldn't be bumped up this way, so if you wish to continue this talk after reading this then probably best to pm me. But to give general advice about bike fitment, you should know that my understanding is that with my personal fit on bikes, I put my quite unusual frame size preference down to the fact that I've a quite long legs in relation to my torso (which isn't hugely common) so longer seat tubes don't bother me that much, plus I sit pretty forward in the saddle and have the saddle far forward in the seatpost rails. And with the Look frame here I intentionally used an inline seatpost to also help along the positioning. Plus, there's the fact that the frame has quite a short top tube compared to its seat tube, although ultimately all of this couldn't improve things that much in my case as the frame was still too big for me, but no doubt it might help others in a similar position to me. And of course other riders might have the opposite problem and are considering being cramped on the bike, but I would just say in their case I can swap the seat post for a traditional lay back one, and also fit a longer stem if it's necessary. And there's a good few other tweaks riders can try to improve things.
I love this. You're 5'8" and you can use a 58cm frame? I'm even more depressed about my stumpy legs now, I struggle with 55cm.