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Title: I wish I was 5'7"- more scooters come into play
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on January 09, 2026, 01:08:24 AM
I mean - I was once. When I was 12.
Although my wife would have married someone else. She's 5'7" and only dated taller men.

Not the first time I wished I was 8"shorter and 150lbs lighter!
I remember when I was 14 I was too tall for a mini-bike like the neighbor kids had. Those things with a rope-start B&S engine.

These pretty Hondas started me feeling that way again.....
(https://i.postimg.cc/507tJ5HM/cubb.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/mgY2kWcM/cub34.jpg)

My height never got me anywhere.....(well, other than marriage to this blonde born in the suburbs of San Fransico)
I was lousy at basketball and, as my brother used to say, "he's big....but he's slow. Runs out grounders like he's dragging a couch!"

Stig
Title: Re: I wish I was 5'7"- more scooters come into play
Post by: Iahawk on January 09, 2026, 03:37:13 PM
um....5'6" and 150 lbs here, reporting for duty! (I would like a little more inseam length to fit on bikes a bit better).

 I sat on the new Honda Cub a few years ago and thought that the riding position seemed very cramped, even for me. I recall very little space in front of my knees to the plastic fairing/splashguards. Cool little bikes, though.
Title: Re: I wish I was 5'7"- more scooters come into play
Post by: Neil955i on January 09, 2026, 03:39:13 PM
That's a pretty looking 125 Cub Stig.  As you say, way too small for us umper lumpers.
Title: Re: I wish I was 5'7"- more scooters come into play
Post by: randyo on January 09, 2026, 06:46:19 PM
I have more gorilla dna than average, short inseam, tall torso, mounting my V-Strom requires technique, even throwing my leg over my K-Pipe I am stretching at extreme range of motion, my 5-11 height is deceiving