yet another person wanting a lightweight but decent mileage bike

[patrick skemp]

For my wife who in hilly areas (tuscany, austria) on unassisted bikes used to be able to do c40miles daily with luggage, but now has health problems, but also lost confidence with cross bar bikes; I am hopiing she could handle a bike thats not a full on step through but something in between the two. Unlikely to do that many hills in the future but when touring again would hope for 40 miles per day say in Holland, so really need capacity for 50 miles - but she would only be using low power