A lady friend of mine is in the market for a new bike. Outwith Trek, Spesh, Kona, Giant and Santa Cruz, who else makes small full-sussers?

Cheers!

Orange, Yeti, BMC, Gary Fisher, Jamis, Scott, Titus, Cannondale…….

Orange – too expensive
Yeti – didn’t like on a demo
Cannondale – not enough standover

The rest may be viable 🙂

ventana – lots of standover too

One of my riding buddies is about 5′ 3″ or so (maybe less) and rides a Marin full sus – don’t know what size it is though. She fitted some Reba airs to it a couple of years ago and has to run ridiculously low pressures, but apart from that, it’s all systems go.

Marin did 13.5″ a few years back but not sure if they still do it now. Also Giant make a 14.5″ extra small in their womens specific frames, still available according to their website.

Turner

well what an excuse for the stw staff to plug the download service
ladies full suss bike review early last year
orange, kona, titus, trek, specialized (which was borked), and a couple of others that i can’t remember…

we reccomend the ladies kona

I’d reccomend the Specialzed WSD’s. I have a Stumpy and it is well worth the dosh compared to my trusty steed the Orange.

Being vertically challenged and slightly built I would 2nd the recommendation for Kona. I have a 16″ Kona ‘The King’ and I must say it has been faultless.

Also I know you have ruled out Orange as ëtoo expensiveí but I test rode an Orange ST24 last year and it was fantastic light weight short travel bike

Rocky Mountain do some teeny tiny WSD full sussers.

cove 15.5″
Transition 15″

I’m 5ft 4″ with a 27.5″ leg so standover is important to me and ride a Ventana X5 15″, loads of crotch clearance, so she won’t hurt her honeypot if there are any mishaps