The Blug notes that there's a stash of small bike frames-- even a 47-cm Saluki. It might be worthwhile for her to talk to Riv-- they also seem quite good at steering folks to other venues if the price and/or style would better suit the customer.
--shoji On Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:14:16 PM UTC-5, Anne Paulson wrote: > > A new member of my bike club posted that she wants to buy a new road > bike. She doesn't have much experience on the road. So I suggested > some issues she ought to think about. > > Now she returns saying that she is trying to decide between two Trek > carbon bikes, one of them a 47 cm and the other a 50 cm. She likes the > bigger bike because the handlebars are higher and wider, but the > salesperson says the reach is too long on the bigger bike. > > I want to gently suggest that she look in another direction (not a > racing bike with a stupidly high low gear and stupidly low handlebars! > I did not say that to her). I would've suggested a Sam, but it seems > like even the 47 cm would be too long for her: the two bikes she is > looking at have effective top tube lengths of 50.9 and 51.9 (something > like that) and the Sam is quite a bit longer at 54.5 cm. > > Any suggestions for a fun road bike for a small woman? I think a Sam > would be in her price range. > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
