Ladies Bikes - What are you riding?

My lovely Amira Expert SL4 :O) My pride and joy :O)

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a Concorde Colombo. I love this bike very much.

^ Very excellent paint job. If you ever want to sell hit me up.

Can anyone help her?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/269769/

I'm afraid I don't really know the market.

Any advice on modern entry level road bikes for someone who is 5ft4?

Btwin Triban.

I think thats too entry level. Do you think you could get a specialized or something second hand for 400-500?

Specialized might be too big even on the smallest size.

Btwin still pretty good for the money, especially 650c.

Says you.

Yours sincerely,
A 5 foot 4" specialized rider

An XS BMC may fit?

Used it will work on ebay for that budget.
(A 5" 5' cyclist...bmc XS looks my size)

The "reach" barely differ once you go smaller than 54cm, the only main difference is the headtube length.

Hey.. I'm selling my 48cm 531c road bike if anybody is interested? pretty sure it's women specific https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/272840/

what did you end up going with? I'm thinking about the straggler...

Thought I'd post this here too:

Suggestions for adventure/gravel/touring (or whatever they're called, drop bars, tyres up to 32 or so and preferably mudguard/pannier bosses) bikes for short people/women (5'2")? Probably something like a 47 frame or something I'd guess, under a grand for complete bike (preferably cheaper).

A brief lookaround is throwing up very little. Cheers

Thorn cycles may fit the bill? They always have small frames.

SjS cycles and have a look there at cycles, or a small frame, they show ready builds there.

It's very much a traditional UK touring bike, so steel, MTB 3*9 gearing, carry 20 kg, front / rear bosses, big tyres.

Nothing on atm bar audax bikes which don't take tyres as big I think.

For something hip look further, but Thorn have a good resale value and reputation.

Thank you for posting that. I'm starting to look for something similar and I never thought of Thorn. Looking at the specs they've now gone to the top of my list.

:)

Btw they also often come up on ebay and quite often in sizes suitable for ladies and shorter ladies.

LadyLiz's Troll in full on touring mode. Is turning out to be a chuffing fantastic bike. Apologies for nds pic.
Size S, 5'4"

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Cheers, some of the audax ones look like possibles on SJS. All the stuff on the Thorn website looks a bit pricey.

Annoyingly I'm spotting loads of 50cm bikes upwards in the sales but barely anything smaller.

They sell used on Evilbay

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/St-John-Street-Cycles

Yeah it's tricky, I am 5"5' and the top tubes are often too long, best bet is Ebay hunting, and bargain frame sales on SJS. Good luck :)

Cheers, nothing on there at the moment but I'll keep an eye out. Everything I can find is either straight-up road bikes or hybrids

Ta, we're doing the ridgeway in a couple of weeks so will post up a better pic in adventure time mode with monster truck tyres etc

A bit of further research has thrown up a variety of Marins. Gestalt, Nicasio and Lombard all seem to fit this kind of bill and Argenta and Ravenna to a lesser extent.

One added to the stable... it's an M so technically a bit large for me, but hey.