Bikes for women.

[Jonno]

Why not just have a fully adjustable spacer setup in the rear, seat pads of different heights and widths, and allow the front forks to be raised through the tripple clamps, and have an option of spring rates...easy. Much cheaper than different frames and also easily tooled for I reckon on the popular models. Then they can have a "RR" version for the serious racers amoungst us.

Problem is most bike workshops won't do an individual setup for each person, it is left for the new bike owner to do that.

[quickchick]

At 5ft 3" I'm vertically challenged as well.

I'm on the tips of my toes on my 636 and therefore I lack confidence in coming to a stop and parking my bike. I can only just push my bike around too and I'm not that confident about doing that either.

I'm having it lowered shortly - taking out the spacer and lowering the forks which will also mean I'll have to shorten the stand. A small price to pay for the extra confidence I will have when my feet are on the ground.

[Neka79]

cagiva raptor..ugly as sin..use a suzi motor...but the seat height is abt 780mm...i kno a few vertically challenged lasses who bought em for that reason...

[Ben]

My wife would love to get her bike licence but has the fear of not being able to ride a bike for the height factor. She is about 5ft 7. I am thinking probably a ZZR for her.

[seraph]

5'7"?!? She's only a couple inches shorter than me!!! And my little ZZR250 is almost too small for me! OK, I'm being a bit generous there, I'm 5'11" in my bare feet, but still, I can't think that she'd have any trouble with a bigger bike, particularly the ZZR600... it's not that much bigger than the 250, and a kick-ass scoot (just ask Colette). Sit her on a few bikes to try them on for size, besides, it only matters when she's stopped at the lights