Wanted: Tiny Touring Bike - 40cm-44cm Terry-40cm-46cm Novara Randonee - LHT - Soma

[GLC1968]

I'd be worried that the Soma would be too long for her. I have a 48cm road bike (Terry) but I ride the smallest Buena Vista frame. It's got great clearance for stand-over of course, but it's kind of long in the effective TT for someone only 4'8".

[eofelis]

This little bike came up on our local craigslist today:
http://westslope.craigslist.org/bik/3838883223.html

It looks like it would make a nice little touring frame. Looks like about a 13" size.
This frame looks a lot like my Novara Randonee tiny frame.
This bike is probably from the mid to early 1990s. It's priced pretty high for a bike that old, but it does look it has not been ridden much.

Here are bikepedia specs on it:
http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/B...ra&model=Aspen
It's a 1996, originally $395 retail.

If you were really really interested in it I could go check it out for you.

[goldfinch]

I'd be worried that the Soma would be too long for her. I have a 48cm road bike (Terry) but I ride the smallest Buena Vista frame. It's got great clearance for stand-over of course, but it's kind of long in the effective TT for someone only 4'8".

At 4'10.5" I looked into this and it is too long for me unless I used some kind of swept back bars. I do have a Terry Classic and I improved the reach by using sparrow bars. But the standover would be iffy for Rosa on my Classic, which I think is something like 26 inches. My legs are long in proportion to my torso.

Even though the Symmetry isn't high end I would be inclined to go for the 40 or 42cm Symmetry from Bikes Direct.