Shorty?

[Thani-B]

A little GN would do the trick nicely.

I agree. GNs are great learner bikes and perfect for short people. Its when you start looking at over 250cc bikes it gets to be a problem finding a right sized bike.

[Metalor]

Agree about the Volty! All the reliability of a GN250 with extra points for style! Check out my profile for a pic of one, and drop me a PM if she would like to come over and have a sit on mine to try it out for size.

I'm not selling though! I love my little Volty!

I agree with Klingon. Clever chick she is!

Volty is an excellent learners bike, leauges ahead in the styling. Not just by looks by ergonomics.

I've ridden a GN after riding the volty for years and the Volty was SOOOOO much better. With the gn you're all squished up, very difficult to manoeuvre. I think stock they come with SQUARE tyres on the rear. This was a loaner so may have been a once off but the Volty was just so much better. Cannot stress it more.

[PrincessBandit]

I agree with Klingon. Clever chick she is!

Volty is an excellent learners bike, leauges ahead in the styling. Not just by looks by ergonomics.

I've ridden a GN after riding the volty for years and the Volty was SOOOOO much better. With the gn you're all squished up, very difficult to manoeuvre. I think stock they come with SQUARE tyres on the rear. This was a loaner so may have been a once off but the Volty was just so much better. Cannot stress it more.

Lol. A lot depends on what you get used to. I find the GN a bit strange feeling whenever I've had to ride it after being used to the bandit. But as my first bike, it was wonderful. Very forgiving, I found it really easy to handle, and the height and weight were just right.

The tyres, I agree with you - one of the first things we changed; but it also had $ in it's favour. We bought ours brand new. Being complete novices and not really knowing anything about bikes at the time we didn't want to go for a secondhand one where there could be any number of "history" issues. It was by far the cheapest new 250 around.

I'd also recommend going for a 250 rather than anything smaller in engine size. You'll likely outgrow anything smaller very quickly.

[Ragingrob]

An interesting thing to note is that a good ol' cbr250r has a really nice low seating position, lower than the gn even.

[bittertwistedcute]

I am vertically challenged and am onto my third bike - tried a cruiser, then a bandit 0 now have a 1992 Zeal that fits like a glove, makes all the difference.
Get her out and on bikes,it like buying jeans off the internet, you may end up with a flat ass and muffin LOL

[Mully]

Miss Mully is vertically challenged too. She's got an Eliminator 250.

[SloCruze]

My VL 250 is up for sale - its over on the 'For Sale' forum

[rie]

i was quite surprised to find that yui's GN (250) was taller than my GPX.

on the other hand, you can crash a GN, pick it up and ride off again. the GPX needs three days tied to a fence to recover from the emotional trauma after a horizontal incident.