Originally Posted by
Shimagnolo
Here is a 42cm Buena Vista I built as a road bike for a 5'3" female.
Tires are 26" x 1.25" slicks.
Seatpost is set for her calculated saddle height. She hadn't picked it up yet, and was bringing her own saddle. Bike on right is a 62cm Soma Doublecross with 700c wheels.
Shimagnolo; I think your photo exactly demostrates a point I was trying to make; The perfect portionality of the wheel and bike. If we were to move those bikes 15 feet apart and take another photo, it would not be noticable that one is much larger or smaller than the other. They both just look right -- perfect.
/K
PS: And that Mixte will probably be an awesome rider...but I have a weakness for them stemming from back in the early 70's having had some nice French mixte singles and tandems and never got over it.