Description
Tui – Titanium Gravel/Road Bike
A perfect Gravel Road Bike for Short People
If you are 5’5″ or shorter, Tui bikes are designed specifically for you. The Tui Gravel Road bike is designed to fit smaller riders from 4’8″ to 5’6″. Other bike manufacturers focus their bike designs on the most average size people since they account for the majority of the population. Tui bikes are designed for people outside of that average. If you are looking for the best road or gravel bike for short riders, you have found it.
Common issues faced by cyclists under 5’5″
- Pedal/toe overlap
- Insufficient standover clearance
- Inappropriate crank length
- Poor handling performance
When other brands attempt to design a road bike for short people, they simply scale a bigger frame down by shortening the top tube, seat tube, and head tube. This is not the answer to making a high-performing, comfortable road bike or gravel bike for short riders. While it might allow the saddle and handlebar to be positioned to fit the rider, it introduces pedal toe overlap. These larger bike brands then lengthen the frame and install to remove toe overlap, which results in ill-fitting bikes that are cumbersome to handle. Riding a bike with a longer top tube combined with a short stem results in very twitchy handling, something you will never experience on a Tui Titanium Bike.
No Toe Overlap
Tui gravel road bikes not only come in smaller sizes than those of big brands, but a Tui bike will also have cranks and wheels that are in better proportion to the rider’s leg length. The XXS, XS, and S Tui gravel/road bikes fit up to 650 X 45B or 700 X 23C tires, rather than the 700 X 42C or 700 X 45C max tire size common on most gravel bikes these days, and they come standard with 140-165mm cranks. The combination of the shorter crank and smaller wheel means that the bike’s “front center” dimension—the distance from the center of the crank to the center of the front hub—doesn’t need to be nearly as long to avoid toe overlap with the front tire when turning as it would with standard 170mm cranks and 700C gravel tires. That allows me to design Tui frames with shorter top tubes than the smallest sizes from the big brands, which is a big part of designing the best gravel bikes for short riders without compromising handling.
Tui Road and Gravel bikes for short riders
Premium Titanium Construction
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Some great features of Titanium Bike Frames
A Tui’s strong, springy, high-modulus, 3Al/2.5V titanium tubing, precisely cut and expertly welded together, enhance its lively, efficient feel when climbing, sprinting, descending, and just rolling along. However, titanium only provides part of the magic that makes a small rider feel more at home on a Tui bike than on other small bikes. |
Design
Designed to be the best road and gravel bikes for short riders
Lennard Zinn has been designing and building custom gravel bikes for big and tall cyclists, petite women, cyclists with injuries, and everyone else since 1982.
Our Tui Brand of bikes for small people is designed to be 100% proportional to the rider. Proportional crank length is at the heart of all of our custom bike designs. Tui Bikes come with crank lengths from 140mm to 165mm, so we can properly fit riders from 4’8″ to 5’6″. Tui bikes are also built with smaller wheels and narrower handlebars and with plenty of standover clearance for short legs. Lennard has developed great frame design concepts to address and solve all of these issues and more. A Tui bike will be lightweight and smooth riding, and will fit like better than any other bike short of going with a fully custom Zinn Bike.
Fit, performance, comfort, and durability will all be superior on a bike designed by Lennard. We guarantee it.
No matter where in the world you may live, we will work with you to ensure the fit of your Zinn gravel bike is absolutely perfect. We offer a full-service in-house bike fitting for those who can make it to Boulder, Colorado and we also have detailed measurement instructions for those who cannot make it out for an in-house fitting. We are also happy to work directly with a bike fitter in your area, and we offer upgraded 3D bike fittings with Dr. Andy Pruitt at the Boulder RETUL Center.
Order a bike now
Excited about your new bike? While you are welcome to come to our location for a complete fitting for your gravel bike, it is not mandatory. You can easily follow the instructions for submitting your own measurements by clicking the measurements button below. To start the order process, please click the button below to pay a deposit. We will contact you with further instructions. Once we have your measurements and deposit, we will create a CAD drawing of your bike for you to review.
Tui Titanium Gravel Bikes
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