Originally Posted by
NikZak
it's not so much the gear ratio you need to be concerned with when you have short legs, it's the crank arm length
this is important when you are shorted/have short legs as your feet wont have to move as far relative to each other as when you have longer crank arms
go for something in a 160mm range and you should be fine
I was more concerned about frame geometry, namely top tubes.