Meekboyz: Downhill Bikes For Kids, But With Grown Up Shocks

Meekboyz meekly describe themselves as “the world’s number 1 downhill bike company for kids”, and their bikes have a few differences to most kid-specific mountain bikes. They do three models: The Mini Beast, the Beast, and the Mega Beast, which all utilise a variety of suspension components you’d normally find on adult bikes. Everything else is designed, built or selected to save weight, from the carbon frames, to carbon rimmed wheels with titanium spokes.

Rather than opting for a simple single pivot, they have a dual pivot design, which they say extends the wheelbase for stability in corners and landings. The linkage has also been designed to work with normal shock tunes and pressures, so unlike many companies making kids bikes, they’re not reliant on custom shocks, and any that ship with the bike can be replaced with off the shelf models. The designer recommends Fox Float X2’s with one volume spacer, and claims that a ten year old on one of their bikes will be comfortable running 160PSI in the shock.

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Here’s a video where he talks about the the bikes:

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Note how the bikes they talk in front of are running Hope pedals, but with all the pins removed. A little of the interview appears to show someone taking the largest model, the 26″ Megabeast, down Crabapple Hits, the biggest jump line at Whistler Bike Park.

The Mini Beast is a 20″ bike running on a 120mm fork (USD $6785), the Beast is 180mm front and back (USD $7500), and the Mega Beast is on a Fox 40 with 185mm travel out back (USD $8375). All have proportionally sized cranks.

Meekboyz says: “We help young people to achieve the goal of becoming high-performance downhill riders. We have solved the biggest, current problem in kids’ downhill riding and kids no longer have only to choose from B-grade bikes that they have the ability and skill level to outride. Our custom, full-suspension bikes offer significant and instant advancement in high-performance riding. We are creating new possibilities for our new riding generation. At Meekboyz, our line is drawn firmly in the sand – kids NEED champion-quality bikes. Put your son or daughter on a Meekboyz bike and let their imagination and skill-level go wild!”

You can find out much more on the Meekboyz website.