Cargo Bikes

The good news is that my wife is so into cycling now that she's put me in charge of getting her a decent tourer. She's tiny (5'2"), so do I go for the surly LHT with the 26" wheels (£999), or do I go for the thorn audax roughly sjsc spec built by me (the same price, but 700c wheels)? Unfortunately for me, the thorn audax is available in bright freaking pink, and the LHT in that size that I've found is "truckaccino" or something -- beige. I have a feeling that careful explanations about geometry and proportional wheels may be in vain.

thanks for all the advice, peeps, invaluable as ever.

I'm pretty small (5'7") and would go for 26" wheels myself. I have a soft spot for the Soma Saga partly for this reason.

Only comes in manly blue though :S