Originally Posted by
TonyS
@foresthill: Your wife probably has normal or longer-than-normal legs. My gf has much shorter than normal legs, just like me. So, tiny inseam = tiny standover = either smaller bike or sloping top tube.
@AnthonyG: Ok, bolt reversed, with a saddle that sits farther back on its rails... cranks I'll think about if I ever find a pair of 150's... and I'm going to try to find some extremely shallow-drop bars to put on it. The nose of the saddle is now even with the back of the bottom bracket shell.
You can get some perfectly decent 130/74 BCD cranks in 145 or 155mm for $35:
http://poweroncycling.com/product/fo...k-arms-756.htm
These are simple cast aluminum parts. They use a JIS taper BB, for example the Shimano UN-54 can be had for $20 or so. I am using a set of the 155 mm cranks on my recumbent bike (makes high cadences a little easier) and am quite pleased with them so far.