I recently bought a Woom 2 for our son for his 3rd birthday in September. Our kid is tall for his age (98th percentile), but he still couldn't fit comfortably on our spare 16" Cleary Hedgehog. Didn't stop him from trying tho! My impression is that the Woom is a little more upright, better specced, and of course much lighter than the Cleary. I don't think our Cleary uses a standard stem, so watch out for that if you're in the used market. They must have changed the spec at some point.
I think we paid $250 for the Woom 2 used, and I'm sure we'll be able to sell it for around the same price so I'm not stressed about him outgrowing it by the Spring. Having him start on a smaller bike was super helpful, as he treated it like a balance bike for the first couple weeks until he caught on. Our kid is is pretty daring, so he's been riding his Woom 2 on mtb trails, paved pump tracks and even rolling over the beginner green jump lines, much to my worriment. I bought him a full set of Fox PeeWee knee/elbow pads, and they've come in handy many times. On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 11:59:54 AM UTC-6 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/a82e6f4a-dc25-4d36-b28d-7411f9d21857n%40googlegroups.com.
