Quote Originally Posted by jocelynlf View Post
FurryBlue -- re: your question about wheel size bias. (For background, I'm 5'1", short torso) ...all I could find (maybe I was looking at the wrong time of year?) were bikes with 700c wheels. And they all felt high to me, center-of-gravity-wise as well as difficult to step over (I have a bad hip). Long story short: the replacement bike has 650c wheels.
Thanks for your comments Jocelyn.

For my riding style the issue with 650c is most of the available tires are narrower than I like, and the mountain bike 26" tires tend to be heavy. But fit wise, I think those wheels are the way to go for many shorter people.