@Robnow,
As was mentioned in the interview article, stack matters too. When you say you are looking for a reach around 500mm, at what stack is that? The Mega is quit tall, so you might find the effective reach of the XL is similar to the the reach of many bikes with a listed reach around 500.
The relationship is about 0.4, so a bike with listed reach of 500 mm and stack of ~620mm would fit/handle identically to the MegaT in XL once you added 25mm of spacers.
March 21, 2019, 1:33 p.m. - Tjaard Breeuwer
@Robnow, As was mentioned in the interview article, stack matters too. When you say you are looking for a reach around 500mm, at what stack is that? The Mega is quit tall, so you might find the effective reach of the XL is similar to the the reach of many bikes with a listed reach around 500. The relationship is about 0.4, so a bike with listed reach of 500 mm and stack of ~620mm would fit/handle identically to the MegaT in XL once you added 25mm of spacers.