The poster who mentioned switching to drops has it exactly right. An upright seating postion only appears to solve wrist pain issues. It's more complicated than that. It is also about wrist angle. Something like a North Road bend might be great but you can still have wrist pain if the bars are at seat height or an inch or two above. Yet, if you want to actually get anywhere on a bicycle that is about where you want your bars. You can put your bars four, six, even more inches higher than seat height and you won't have wrist pain but you won't be efficient. You may develop back pain. You may hurt your knees. The Dutch get away with it by keeping their trips short. Their cities are compact and this can work there. But. Enough about that. The 26" wheels.... I don't know, most of the disc bikes I've seen are 700C/29". Not saying no one makes 26" disc. Of course they must... doesn't mean you will be able to afford them or that they will be steel and they will absolutley not be step through. Have you seen an Electra Amsterdam? They list for an insane amount but most people get them for 1/2 or less of their list price. I'd start looking at the Electra product line. If I couldn't find anything there I'd start thinking that I am maybe putting too many conflicting search criteria into the engine. FWIW.

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