So cheesed off. Bought a Norco Charger from Evans for the weeble for £806 on the basis of it looking about right and being slightly lighter than the Scott 720 whotsit that they have.
First thing that pisses me off about it is that you need to chop the seatpost to get it small enough for the kids to sit on. Which is fine, until he grows at which point we need to buy another bloody seatpost.
Anyway, stuck the damn thing on the scales and it weighs pretty much 13kg. For a size extra small. It’s about 2kg or more more than his current Ivabike.
Why, how can a bike that retails for nearly one thousand pounds, that only needs to carry 45kg of skinny kid weigh nearly 13kg. It’s just nuts.
I’ve had another look on Evans and can’t see shit worth buying. In actual fact part of the reason that I bought the Charger is that it seems to be the only thing in the country that you can get in a small size. WHY?
You choose the kids sections of various online bike shops and they have various 24″ bikes of dubious quality around the £500 mark. But they’re all too small for a 10 year old.
So you click on the adults section and it’s full of bloody waggon wheels and this bullshit 650.5 b inch bollox new wheels size which adds another 750g to everything. Not that it bloody matters because none on the frames are small enough for an 11 year old to ride.
No wonder bloody Islabikes are doing so well. Unfortunately they’re sold out of Creig 26″ otherwise I’d probably buy my 6th bike from them.
Does Evans really not sell any decent bikes for kids between 10 and 13 years old?
And no, I don’t want to build one myself . I want to buy one.