Originally Posted by
bettybl
I'm 5'2", female.
I live in a 6 floor walk-up apartment
My wife was in the exact same situation. I got her a full-sized light sport hybrid. As mentioned here, you'll generally find that folding bikes are heavier by a tad than their non-folding brethren, mostly because of the added complexity of the folding mechanism.
I also don't want a 16 inch wheel because those look like baby wheels and just looks weird when I saw them on the streets. I"m also afraid it won't be that stable.
Many folding bikes aren't super stable but that's not because of the wheel size per se: it's because of the geometry of the bike necessary to achieve a good fold. I have a 16" wheel folding bike and it rides pretty well, more stably than the larger folding bikes.
I can't speak to weird: but people literally stop me in the street to tell me that THAT BIKE IS AWESOME! So...