What is it with the geometry of kids bikes?
Haynes
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My 9 year old has always had BMX bikes (park not race) 16" and now 18" wheeled, i'm a roadie but have recently got a bmx for walking the dog, keeping up with my son etc. On a decent bmx youve got a really stable platform especially when youre stood as you need to be for jumping and tricks etc.
Recently ive ridden a couple of 'normal' kids 20" bikes and they're awful, the steering being really twitchy, the handle bars being too narrow and too low. They just feel really unpleasant and unbalenced to ride. Smaller kids biks tend to be more of a sit up and beg stlye, but the examples i'm referring to have a much more leaning forward stance.
Now they could just be cheap nasty bikes and/or poorly set up or maybe i'm more used to the feel of a bmx or a road bike. I was wondering what the rationale is for this sort of geometry, am i missing something? Or are they just built for quick appeal and an undecerning market?
Recently ive ridden a couple of 'normal' kids 20" bikes and they're awful, the steering being really twitchy, the handle bars being too narrow and too low. They just feel really unpleasant and unbalenced to ride. Smaller kids biks tend to be more of a sit up and beg stlye, but the examples i'm referring to have a much more leaning forward stance.
Now they could just be cheap nasty bikes and/or poorly set up or maybe i'm more used to the feel of a bmx or a road bike. I was wondering what the rationale is for this sort of geometry, am i missing something? Or are they just built for quick appeal and an undecerning market?
<hr><font>The trick is not MINDING that it hurts.</font>
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they are just cheap and nasty as the buyer is not the user and the user doesn't know any better, try islabikes for something better0
