Hey Brasco, welcome aboard and great first post.

I believe a member of the fairer sex here is 5'2" and she handles the bike I'm sure as well as any of us; maybe she'll chime in.

If you handled the bike on a showroom floor... maybe you had a chance to move it back and forth... and maybe roll it out a little bit in a curve? If so, you've experienced about the worst of the effort required to handle the bike. As an experienced rider, you'll likely have very little trouble once the bike is in motion... it's just so well balanced.

As mentioned above, re-working the foam in the OEM seat can bring you noticeably closer to the ground. A lot of this effect is from removing foam from the sides of the seat.