Natness and Frazzle,
I'm really pleased that I can still do my side dismount on my VIII H 20" as I've done for all my years of Lady's bikes ... you know, right foot over the horizontal bar and down on the left hand side ... almost 50 years old and would have found it a pain not to be able to do that. I actually spent a lot of time with a measuring tape etc. trying to figure out if I could probably do it with the Downtube.
Anna