Which bikes are best for shorter riders? It’s been a perennial issue for shorter male or, particularly, women riders, of which there are more as every year goes by. And it’s a problem exacerbated on the one hand by the continuing popularity of both adventure bikes, which routinely have seat heights only giants and can master plus the upsurge in sports machines which, with their ‘bum-up, nose-down’ postures can be sometimes equally off-putting.
At the same time, however, an increasing number of mainstream manufacturers are commendably tackling the high seat height ‘problem’ by offering more and more bikes not just