I think it may be what you are used to, as far as levers go. I'm small - 5' nuthin. I have small hands and small feet. I have ultegra on my rain bike, DA on my race bike and short reach on my cross bike. None of them feel particularly any different to me. Certainly none of them feel dangerous. Then again I've been riding since I was a wee one and have had bikes with regular sized (non-adjustable - that's a pretty new thing) levers probably since I was about 11, so I'm very used to it.