My wife is a 6* year old retired Navy Chief (disabled vet) and she is no wimp (she used the backhoe today to transplant some azaleas). She started feeling a little unsteady on her two wheeler so I upgraded her to a 2016 CanAm F3 LTD. IMHO that is the best, safest bike on the market today (for her).

She loves it!!!

Her Spyder has a semi-auto transmission (she shifts up, it shifts down for her), Power steering, ABS, Stability Control, Traction Control. The only thing I don't like about it is the belt drive, too bad it didn't come with a shaft ....

The 1330 Rotex 3cyl has no problem keeping up with my B. Last fall I had trouble keeping up with her on the dragon ....