Kids bikes

[jay91]

My daughter needs a bigger bike she's outgrown her hotrock 12 inch. She doesn't ride that much so didnt want to spend loads like a islabike just something that won't be trashed after a few rides and doesn't weigh a lot

Any ideas?

[voodoo_simon]

Ridgeback make nice children bikes

[mechanicaldope]

I know you say "not an islabike" but why not a secondhand one? Got my girl a lovely one for £200 last year and will probably be able to get most, if not all, of that back when she needs a new one next year.

[biggaygibbon]

Got a Frogbike 48 for sale. Hardly used. 16 inch wheels in orange.
£100

[mechanicaldope]

^^^^^ Buy that! Unless you want gears?

[adjustablewench]

And there the bike club scheme now -dont know much about it nyself but i think hopevalleypaul has just signed up for it for his lad.

Pay a regular amount and change the bike as they need to as they grow.

[cloudnine]

Isla or frog.. Both great.
Isla amazing residual value.

[Dr Nick]

This any good?

From memory I can't remember wheel size. Hopefully zoom can help (but I'm on my phone)

Yours for price of postage or collection from Oxfordshire

Just pass on on when it's served its purpose.

[Borderer]

I got a Boardman Sport E bike for my son. His is a 26in wheeler, but I don't know if they do smaller sizes. Its an ali frame and has all the proper kid-specific geometry like Isla bikes do ie shorter cranks, narrower bars etc. I have been really pleased with it (and so has he). It was £300 new from Halfords.

[jay91]

Ridgeback make nice children bikes

just having a look now not a bad price

[johnnystorm]

My daughter needs a bigger bike she's outgrown her hotrock 12 inch. She doesn't ride that much so didnt want to spend loads like a islabike just something that won't be trashed after a few rides and doesn't weigh a lot

Any ideas?

If she likes it get the next size up Specialized?

[jay91]

My daughter needs a bigger bike she's outgrown her hotrock 12 inch. She doesn't ride that much so didnt want to spend loads like a islabike just something that won't be trashed after a few rides and doesn't weigh a lot

Any ideas?

If she likes it get the next size up Specialized?

good point

I've just asked her she wants a basket and a seat for her dolls

[jay91]

Got a Frogbike 48 for sale. Hardly used. 16 inch wheels in orange.
£100

Sadly it's the wrong colour kids ay

[holdsteady]

Similarly, bought a Specialized hotrock for my eldest when she was 2 1/2 and she never really took to it and moaned that Father Christmas had got her wrong bike, as she wanted a considerably cheaper Apollo Princess bike that I refused to get her. My youngest got the Hotrock handed down to her, and got a bit more use out of it.

For my eldest's next bike I begrudgingly let her choose and she picked an Apollo piece of crap, and it is truly awful - weighs a ton, bolts made of cheese, rattles, brakes are woeful - avoid.

When my youngest was 5 last year she got her first new bike - a Dawes Lottie which I chose (was given the brief by the wife to get a pink one and not something insanely expensive) and I have been very impressed with it - cost about £180 from Evans. She loves it, it's pink, fairly light alu frame and a reasonable spec for the money.

[HopeValleyPaul]

We have just subscribed to this scheme. £25 initially and then about £8 a month. When your kids out grows the bike send it back and get the next size up.
It's quite a new scheme ( I think) so all the bikes they are sending out are brand new frog bikes but as it builds they will be sending out refurbs.

https://www.thebikeclub.co