Originally Posted by Zephyr11

At 5' you're going to have standover issues with anything longer travel. Someone is going to come on here and say standover doesn't matter, and I agree that reach and stack are probably your two most important measurements, but some point (or lots of points), you're going to mess up and find yourself straddling the toptube, and you're going to be thankful you can stand over the bike. So as a fellow short person (5'3), I'm going to tell you that size is going to be probably your biggest limiting factor, and it's going to narrow your selection significantly.

Now, what do you want to spend?