Girls bike choice?

ragged1100

Hi

Last July I walked into abike shop and asked for a decent bike for my daughter's 8th birthday, her nan was paying so I said don't worry too much about the price, I justwant to get her a nice bike. Anyway they sold me a nice shiny girly pink and purple bike for £125 and I though, very nice.

Move on 9 months and I decided it was time to get fit and a mountain bike was the answer. I duly read up on it and bought myself a nice Scott hard tail and proceeded to get hooked.

Then it was my son's turn, equipped with far greater knowledge (and persuading his nan we needed a bigger budget!), he was lucky enough to get a Specialized Hotrock 24" just after Christmas.

The problem is, quite natuarally my daughter wants to come out with us, she's enthusiastic and is quite talented, the problem is her nice shiny bike turns out to be rubbish for anything except cycling round a car park, it's a tank, made of steel with cheap "full suspension" and only 7 gears, it weighs more than my bike (29lbs) I've weighed it!

I feel terrible, I want to sell it and buy her a decent bike, but my wife, no tbeing into cycling doesn't understand and still sees the nice shiny bike. How ca I get her a dcent bike? I'm gonna keep my eys on the small ads, but what can people recommend? It's gotta be light (ally), have at least 1 gears and decent brakes. Help, she realyy loves it, but anything more than a 5% gradient and she has to get off and push!!!

Cheers

Ragged

llamafarmer

Blimey! A 30lbs kid's bike! :shock: I know nothing about kid's bikes or girl's bikes, so I'm struggling here, but Spesh do a girl's Hotrock and if your lad's one does a good job....

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?spid=40444&eid=164

Just stay away from that horrible cheap full sus rubbish Sounds like you should go to a different shop in future too!

OwenB

I know the problem here, my girlfriends lad is well into his bike and is about ready for a new one, I want to get him something decent enough so that he can come along with me without having to ride something that's heavier than mine by a good lot, his current bike is about five pounds heavier than my GT Avalanche and he's only 8!!
I don't want to spend masses of cash on something he might have grown out of in 12 months as well

The Northern Monkey

try summer bikes for a first proper girls specific bike

Summer Skye (£299)

Summer Storm (£399)

Summer Fever (549.99)

B

Daz555

bigbenj_08 wrote:

try summer bikes for a first proper girls specific bike

Summer Skye (£299)

Summer Storm (£399)

Summer Fever (549.99)

B

Are they not for women, rather than children?