What do short people ride?

See now that's an interesting question isn't it? After all someone 6 foot tall doesn't normally think about what bike they need to buy. They can be more like a woman buying a car, sit on it and think about how good it looks with their boots or jacket. Or whether or not they look cool sitting on it.

Those of us vertically challenged however have a largely diminished pool of bikes to choose from. If you add to that the limitation of one manaufacturer, say BMW then things start to get really depressing. Why BMW? well if the other 1/2 is riding a Beemer and you go to the club with him, you really don't want to be turning up on something different, especially if you really like the bikes.

So after sitting on a few I discovered that the BMW F650GS was just about right. At 5'3" I can at least flat foot one side without so much of a lean as to fall over. The problem then of course was finding one of these popular bikes for sale. Craigslist to the rescue!!

So there's my bike, not pretty but low mileage and the right kind. Since then we changed the tires to dual purpose ones, don't ask me the kind I'm not a full on biker yet! and we also bought a lower seat. So hopefully I will be confident enough over the next few months to ride it on the street.