Congratulations cool to hear about spouses getting into motorcycling. I think I am going to go out and buy a bike for my wife. She is too frugal to buy it for herself. If I was going to do that I would seriously look at used bike. My wife is natural athlete and is 5'9" so I think she would think the Rebel to be too small and she would grow out of it quickly I would probably look at bigger bike with a friendly power delivery the SV 650 Suzuki comes to mind even a HD Sportster 883.