Bike shopping is many things to many people. If you do it all the time, just for fun, then I don’t need to explain that to you. However, if you’re either a new or returning rider, it can feel like you’re getting thrown in at the deep end of the pool. Every year, the list of new and returning models just gets bigger—so how do you choose?
For this list, we focused on what it says in the title. As a 5’4” rider with a 27-inch inseam, while there are certainly ways for us shorties to ride bigger bikes, that’s not what this list is about. Here, you’ll find an assembly of bikes that should be pretty easy to just throw a leg over and go—no complicated mounting and dismounting strategies necessary.
