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From: slk@mit-vax.UUCP (Ling Ku)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: What do short people ride?
Message-ID: <398@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 10:21:24 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.398
Posted: Tue Mar 11 10:21:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 20:46:42 EST
References: <decwrl.1539> <447@cubsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: slk@mit-vax.UUCP (Siu-Ling Ku)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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In article <decwrl.1539> breault@msee.DEC writes:
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>  In searching for a new sport bike for my 5' 1" wife, we have found the
>number of choices severly limited in the $300 range. Univega's Nuovo Sport
>is available with an eighteen and a half inch frame and twenty-six inch
>wheels. The '85 Nuovo Sport is equipped with Suntour ARX hardware and the
>'86 version comes with Shimano L series components. Shogun's '86 line of
>bikes include seventeen inch versions with twenty-seven inch wheels but the
>top tube on the one we looked at (the 400) seemed disproportionately long.
>
>  Does anyone know of any other bikes worth looking at? She doesn't like
>a mixte style frame (and neither do I).

I am 5'1 and I had the same problem.  Most (big) bike shops are unwilling
to sell me even the smallest (19") 27" wheel bike because I don't have an
inch clearence from the top tube.  I had to settle for a mixte.  Since I 
commute in heavy traffic, I am glad to have the "added security".

					Siu-Ling Ku
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					Siu-Ling Ku
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