Canyon kids bikes

[pembo]

So do I order a 20" for my 3 year old?

https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/kids/

[tenohfive]

Am I reading that right - you want your 3 year old to try and propel a 9kg bike?


No experience of Canyon but I recently got a Littlebig bike following a good review on road.cc:
https://www.littlebigbikes.com/
http://road.cc/content/review/207728-littlebig-3-1...

It didn't spend long as a balance bike and is now being happily ridden around with the chainset added (less than 5 minute job.) It's light, simple and thus far reliable. Sub-6kg mark means I don't notice it when I chuck it over the shoulder and walk home after the morning school run.

[pembo]

He is quite happily riding a 16" Hoy Bonaly at the moment. (great bike)

I was hinting at the slow delivery times from Canyon meaning that I should probably get my order in early.

Thanks for the tip though

[tenohfive]

Ah. Whoosh parrot in order then - the weight thing was fresh in my mind as my better half was initially looking at some Halfords piece of c**p that weighed more than my road bike for our youngest's first bike.

[louiebaby]

tenohfive said:

I recently got a Littlebig bike following a good review on road.cc:

https://www.littlebigbikes.com/

http://road.cc/content/review/207728-littlebig-3-1...

It didn't spend long as a balance bike and is now being happily ridden around with the chainset added (less than 5 minute job.) It's light, simple and thus far reliable. Sub-6kg mark means I don't notice it when I chuck it over the shoulder and walk home after the morning school run.

That's awesome, what a clever design.

Our youngest (2nd of 2, no more thanks) is on his older brother's Islabike Rothan, and starting to get the hang of it aged 26 months. The eldest went straight to an Islabikes Cnoc 16 from the Rothan aged 3.5 years, and was pedalling around on his own within 10 minutes of first trying it, no stabilisers.

I'm a massive fan of balance bikes, and if we were starting now, the Little-Big bike would get my money. (Islabikes are still very good, but they have been getting competition over the last couple of years...)

[pembo]

anonymous said:

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....of when?

[Kell]

That little big bike is awesome...