How tall is she? I would think that would be the limiting factor. There are road racing bikes with 24" wheels, both new (mostly aluminum but even some cf) and vintage steel with lugs. I don't know how easy it would be to find a vintage one, but if you queried the Classics Rendezvous list, you'd probably turn up something. I think Joe Bunik on this list has one hanging in his garage, along with a bunch of other project frames that will probably never get built (just kidding Joe).
My daughter studies French and wanted a French bike, so I found a lugged steel Peugeot mixte in purple. Polished it up, replaced the heavy steel 27" wheels with alloy 700's, replaced the junky Simplex with Shimano, added Nitto Dove bars, and voila, a classy purple get-around town bike. That was when she was about 11, and a bit under 5' tall. jim m wc ca On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Peter M <uscpeter11...@gmail.com> wrote: > My daughter has all of a sudden taken an interest in my bike collection > and keeps hollering at me to "build her a cool bike." I have been looking > around CL and ebay but all I see is either old stuff that was crap when new > or new stuff that is just crap. Shame girls bikes get the short end of the > stick. To add to the challenge my daughter is a princess and wont be seen > on something not pink or purple and sparkly. So I could get something > intended for a boy and get re-spray but I know there are a good bit of > parents on here who might have a better idea. Cali said she wants a bike > like daddys, not like the ones she sees in walmart, made me smile. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
