Honey Bikes for Women

Honey's bikes for women are function-specific, well-defined, specialty bikes for dedicated purposes.

Honey’s line includes 11 bike styles each designed for a very specific use and a women’s body type in mind. No Honey is a re-purposed men’s bike. No Honey is a general use, try to do everything, bike. Honey designed each women’s bike style and function from the ground up—including tubing choices, bike fit, handling, and components—for a very specific and narrowly defined purpose.

Bikes Available Today

Road Day Ride	Designed for all-day riding—centuries and single day excursions. The Honey Day series offers a stable, comfortable, slightly more upright bike than a “standard road” bike.
Weather	This is Honey’s all-weather training bike series. Honey Weathers come with fenders and long-reach brakes.
Commuter	Honey’s commuting-specific bike series. They come with belt-drives and internal gearing.
Cyclocross	Designed specifically for contemporary American UCI sanctioned ‘cross racing.
Tandem Road	Designed to fit—with 27 size options, the Honey’s fully loaded tandem series is ready for serious multi-day riding. Honey Road Tandems include disc brakes and are ready for fenders and front and rear panniers.
Mountain 26”	Contemporary hardtails available in 12-sizes with innovative frame tubing design.

Bikes Available Soon

Road Race	100% race fit, handling, and performance. Available April 1.
Mountain 29er	Contemporary hardtail series. Available May 1.
Touring	Designed for the most serious multiday loaded pannier riding. Available May 1.
Fixed Gear	Simple urban fixies. Available June 1.
Tandem Mountain	Yes; mountain tandems. Available August 1.

Designing Bikes Specifically for Women

The Busy Bees at Honey—some of whom are women—have been designing and building women’s bikes, for various companies, for nearly 20-years. Honey sees important differences between women’s and men’s bikes and bodies. That’s one reason that Honey offers such a wide range of women’s bikes—with more than 30 women’s models from which to choose! In fact, every model Honey offers for “men” Honey also designs specifically to fit a woman’s body.

Honey also knows that the idea of a “women’s bike” or a “men’s bike” is a bit of a fallacy. Some women fit really well on “men’s” bikes and some men are better fit on “women’s” bikes.

Honey’s way of achieving the best possible bike designs for women is comprehensive and threefold:

1. Feel: Honey tailors the bike’s contact points—saddle, handlebars, and controls—specifically to a woman’s body. These adapted contact points will be more comfortable.
2. Fit of the Frame: Achieving the best riding position begins with the correct frame size and shape. A Honey guarantees a better fit than any other stock bike because Honeys come in 12-sizes—and 11-styles. This allows the rider to choose between a few sizes—thereby getting the best fit. Improved frame fit helps reduce overall fatigue, back pain, hip issues, and lots of other problems.
3. Fit of the Components: Honey fine-tunes the riding position by choosing the correct female oriented components, including gender-specific stem length and angle, saddle type, handlebar width and reach, and controls—brakes and shifters—size and shape. This helps alleviate shoulder pain, hand numbness, hip problems, and lots of other issues that can arise from a poorly fitted bike.

Feel: Contact Points on the Bike

Every rider has three contact points on a bike—saddle, handlebar, and pedals. When appropriate, Honey tailors these contact points to the female rider:

• Saddle: Female Honeys often come with a slightly wider saddle, because a woman’s hip bones tend to be wider than a man’s. Of course, saddle feel is a very personal choice; a wider saddle isn’t universally the ideal choice for every woman. If you have narrower hips, a narrower saddle—often considered a “men’s” saddle—might feel better.
• Handlebar & Controls: Female Honeys come with a narrower handlebar, in many cases. This is because a woman’s shoulders tend to be narrower than a man’s. And sometimes, when appropriate, the Honey has different brake and shifter levers—depending on the bike model and size.
• Shoes: Shoes are the third contact point, and Honey doesn’t offer shoes. We recommend that you work with your favorite local retailer to try some shoes and have them professionally fit.

Of course, these are generalizations, and it would not be ideal for every woman to have these component alterations be applied to every Honey bike size, in every Honey bike style, for each Honey series. Honey applies these rules when and where they are appropriate and they provide a better bike riding experience.

Fit of the Frame: Fundamental Riding Position

Choosing the right frame size is the first step to getting the ideal fit. Fortunately, because Honeys come in so many sizes and shapes, you can choose the best possible match of handlebar reach and height, relative to your saddle height. One of the benefits of all the size options is a reduction in overall fatigue, back pain, hip issues, and lots of other problems.

Fit of the Components: Fine-Tuning Riding Position

Honey not only chooses component contact points specifically for women, Honey also places those points in space, better for women’s bodies.

• Female Honey Saddles are typically slightly more forward, for better pelvic rotation and a slightly more upright feel.
• Stems on Female Honeys usually provide a slightly higher handlebar height which helps open up lungs and torso; the stem choice also helps reinforce improved pelvic rotation.
• Women’s Honey Handlebars have a shorter reach and narrower width—when appropriate. This helps reduce shoulder fatigue and other upper body and arm issues.
• The rider’s Controls—brake levers and shifters, where appropriate—on Female Honeys may have a slightly smaller and more natural fit. This improvement can help reduce hand fatigue and numbness, and arm and shoulder pain.

These design points, along with a lot of science, make up Honey’s extensive women’s bike line.