Road bike for female 5'1" not too girly!

Xommul

Hi Folks

My wife is looking for a Road bike, in the £1000 region and she is having difficulties finding something that doesn't look like a child designed the colour scheme. She hates floral decals and silly girly colours.

In essence she wants a more masculine colour scheme, a light frame, hopefully 105's and its got to fit her 5'1" height.

We already bought an Aventi Cadence 2.0 xs which was too big, came with huge handlebars that were too wide, a 170mm crank and a seat post which wouldn't go down far enough, had to send it back.

Anyone out there got any ideas we can look at?

Thanks in advance

bmxboy10

How about this in small (or x small). http://www.wiggle.co.uk/cinelli-saetta-105-2013/

The frames have quite a sloping TT in smaller sizes I think. I have a large and the bike is excellent.

napoleond

a 44cm Dolan would fit the bill

http://www.dolan-bikes.com/road/road-bi ... ilder.html

Or a Canyon Roadlite?

https://www.canyon.com/_en/roadbikes/bi ... ab-reiter2

poppit

NapoleonD wrote:

a 44cm Dolan would fit the bill

http://www.dolan-bikes.com/road/road-bi ... ilder.html

Or a Canyon Roadlite?

https://www.canyon.com/_en/roadbikes/bi ... ab-reiter2

Beat me to it with the Canyon, there's also Rose's women specific, similar spec' to the Canyon http://www.rosebikes.co.uk/bike/rose-pro-wsl-200-2014/aid:666639?forcedefaulttemplate=true&bikevariantchanged=1 , it will be easier to tweak the spec' plus, being women specific, it might fit her a bit better.

on-yer-bike

My wife went for a black Condor Italia, the one with a shorter top tube. She is 5-5 and they fitted her with a 48 , I think. She was repulsed by Specialized and Bianchi ladies bikes in the LBS.

littledove44

I am biased, but a Roubaix 2013 model would fit the bill perfectly.

animal72

My Mrs (same height) has a 44cm Bianchi C2C, lovely little bike and not at all girly.

Purchased from Epic, who I'd highly recommend.

menthel

on-yer-bike wrote:

My wife went for a black Condor Italia, the one with a shorter top tube. She is 5-5 and they fitted her with a 48 , I think. She was repulsed by Specialized and Bianchi ladies bikes in the LBS.

Condor do most of their bikes in a 46 as the smallest, I think even my wife would fit on one! They also do the italia in a step through for the ladies in a skirt. A touch more seriously, they do a great fitting service and there was a woman there getting an italia at the same time I got mine. She went all black with hers, as I did with mine!

My wife has a spesh dolce and it is not very girly. They also do small sizes (my wife is only just 5'1" and has quite long legs for her size so needed a small bike to be able to reach the handlebars with her short torso!) and if you get them from a decent shop I am sure they will let you change handlebars, stem etc to get a good fit.

mroli

Giant do some "non-girly" bikes women's bikes too - I think the Avail? A mate at work got one and she liked it and didn't look too girly at all. Haggle on price - there are often good deals out there...

small_bloke

No need to spend £1000 in my opinion

Buy this Trek 1.2 2013 for £520.

Change the handlebars for FSA Omega 380mm wide £30. They have a shorter 80mm reach if she's still too stretched out. It comes with Bontrager 400mm wide handlebars which I found too wide, the reach was about 90mm on the bars. You could always use a 75mm reach handlebar such as other Bontrager compact bars to reduce the stretch even more.

I am 5'-3" and had to fit a longer 100mm stem and slide the saddle back a little.I think it came with a 70mm stem. You could always change the seatpost to in-line instead of set-back to reduce the stretch as well.

http://www.cyclesurgery.com/trek-1.2-20 ... isting=tru

I found the 9 speed Sora prefectly adequate for the price point compared to my other bikes which have Tiagra, 105 and Sram Rival. For small hands SRAM is the best but that's a totally different price point.

The only rubbish thing on the bike was brakes. Maybe its the poor pads or calipers.

slowbike

menthel wrote:

on-yer-bike wrote:

My wife went for a black Condor Italia, the one with a shorter top tube. She is 5-5 and they fitted her with a 48 , I think. She was repulsed by Specialized and Bianchi ladies bikes in the LBS.

Condor do most of their bikes in a 46 as the smallest, I think even my wife would fit on one! They also do the italia in a step through for the ladies in a skirt. A touch more seriously, they do a great fitting service and there was a woman there getting an italia at the same time I got mine. She went all black with hers, as I did with mine!

My wife has a spesh dolce and it is not very girly. They also do small sizes (my wife is only just 5'1" and has quite long legs for her size so needed a small bike to be able to reach the handlebars with her short torso!) and if you get them from a decent shop I am sure they will let you change handlebars, stem etc to get a good fit.

Spesh have spoiled some of their latest offerings - well, the ones my wife was looking at - by including pink accessories or flowery designs ...
Put off by that she saw the new bikes by Orro and bought an Oxygen - but the XSmall isn't really Xsmall - it's an equivalent of a 52 ... but nice bikes!