I just ordered an Islabike Beinn 24" for my daughter. It was so refreshing to find a company that takes children's bikes seriously and doesn't just lazily try to shrink an adult's bike and imagine that that will do the job.
Children's bodies have different relative dimensions and kids bikes so often fit really poorly and weigh a ton that they're just not much fun for the kids to ride. Also, they all have suspension as mentioned earlier which is even more useless for kids than adults and just adds to the weight of the bike. They also have 18 gears that are unneeded and not understood. Drives me nuts! not to mention the terrible quality of all the components. Urrrgh! I'm so looking forward to getting it it's ridiculous! Definitely much more excited about it than she is! Racks! Mudguards (fenders)! Propstand! Yes!! There must be an equivalent for you guys in NA. Damian On Jun 23, 4:31 am, cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hear ya' on the lack of kid bike options. If you don't know about them, > Islabike in the UK is a great resource. Unfortunately, they don't have a NA > distributor, so shipping is prohibitive from the UK. So email 'em and > encourage them to get one post haste (that's the way they talk there, be > sure to pepper your email with it)!!! > > http://www.islabikes.co.uk/ > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:43 PM, lukemcg <luke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally, Riv offers enough current options for adults. Would love > > to see Grant put his mind to qork on an age 9+ bike. It is really > > awful to shop for kids bikes to find hydraulic, knobby tired mountain > > bikes with too many gears. > > > Too much emphasisnon the wrong things. > > > Luke > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- > Cheers, > David > Redlands, CA > > *...in terms of recreational cycling there are many riders who would > probably benefit more from > improving their taste than from improving their performance.* - RTMS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
