Hello

-=MarkJ=-

Hi,

Noob here, about to buy my boy and myself a mountain bike after he impressed me so much at Llangdegla on his BMX. I've been reading loads on here and around the web and have a good idea for my own bike but struggling to find the perfect bike for my lad. Anyway that's for another post.

cheers

Mark

YeehaaMcgee

Hello!
Welcome.
Can't help with the lad's bike though, sorry, just thought I'd say hi.

bartimaeus

Welcome. I rode the Llandegla blue with my lad - who's now 11 - a few weeks ago and he really loved it... once he'd got up the climb which he found 'uninteresting'!

As to bikes for kids, that very much depends on how old/how big they are, and as usual how much you can afford to spend. It's very hard to find a perfect bike that's also affordable. The most important things are that the bike must 'fit' and it must be 'light' - and it's worth remembering that cheap suspension is pretty poor, even for adults who have enough weight to make a spring move... so rigid is often the way to go to start with.

That said, there was a recent thread on 'first 26er'... http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10017&t=12929664. It's also worth looking in the Family and Kids section.

Kowalski675

Hello also.

fredblob

hello aswell lol