My just-turned-four-year-old has only been interested in the small balance bike for a month or two, but now he's advanced to zipping around quite quickly and easily.
So, I started looking into Wooms and Clearys here in the Los Angeles area. A shop advised me that while the Wooms are lighter and have lower standover height, the Clearys use a standard threadless stem, so you can replace the stem as the kid grows to get a bit more time out of the frame. Haven't tried it myself, but an interesting thought! We have another kid on the way, so I may just go for a used Woom 3 and hold onto it for the younger one. Great to read all the helpful advice here! I really appreciate it. On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 9:59:54 AM UTC-8 pi...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Oh, one other benefit of some local shops is they sometimes have a >> guaranteed trade in program for sizing up. I actually think that is an >> option for our Trek if we wanted to trade in for a bigger size with a >> credit applied. I still need to look into that as I forget if it was >> something with the shop and the Trek we actually bought or another >> dealer/brand. We have some younger cousins so have been handing down much >> of our outgrown stuff rather than reselling but will need to see what our >> trade in options are for the 16" bike before making any final decisions >> since it may end up making more sense to trade up vs. swapping components >> and keeping it but will see how the fit is come spring and how much >> adjusting is needed. >> >> Woom also has an upcycling option: > https://woom.com/en_US/products/upcycling-membership?variant > > Since we have 2 kids we never made use of it (kid brother got a hand me > down Woom). > > I'm not sure the upcycling program makes sense since as someone else > said, selling the bike used locally nets you north of 50% usually. We had > someone drive down from San Francisco just to pick up our used Woom 4 off. > Kids bikes that are actually used for real mountain biking actually don't > wear very much. While I've had to replace chains on the smaller woom 2 and > 3, I discovered that the 4 and 5 just don't seem to wear stuff out as > quickly. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bf31f31e-eeb6-4277-a459-b3b44c0a0396n%40googlegroups.com.
