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Amazing job : ) an all-time coolest kid's bike of all time contender.
Fantastic work!! Gorgeous little bike, and even better because you've gone to the effort of making something special rather than just shell out for something expensive and mass market.
I love it. Presents like that make special childhood memories.
Thank you all for your comments.
Weight is 4.4kg so a bit heavy but rolls well.
I'm going to sort the stickers with some white piping tape.
The 5th axis we have is a Nikken one, so useful and worth getting.
As and when she gets "balance", would welding a BB, sticking some cranks and a freewheel and a front brake be doable?
You should send a pic to Intense.
That is just fantastic. Well done and a lucky daughter. Better get it wrapped and off to Santa quick !!
ChunkyMTB - Member
You should send a pic to Intense
Maybe not in light of the recent MTB company copyright lawsuits!
Seriously lucky little girl, I wish you were my dad 😆
Oops, too late. Well, I can always take the stickers off 😉
umm, it appears to have no brake.
But apart from that, excellent. Really nice to see.
dude, your bike just showed up on an email from CRC.
get a patent in quick - there's likely to be a load of copies hitting the shops!
CRC contacted me about putting on their hub.
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Now you need kashima forks to match 😉
Wow, this is truly impressive...well done.
Fantastic Steve
now you need to make another 500 to supply CRC 😀
Thanks all. Cheers Chris, that'd be a nice little project for sure!
Truely awesome!
Custom F & R discs.......
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Well done - and happy Christmas to you and your daughter
Wow thats cool.
Really is a superb bit of crafting 11\10 for effort and finish
Hope she loves it as much as we do
Well, the bike was a bit of a miss yesterday but today she's been on it in the house with daddy supporting her 😀
It's a little bit big but she keeps saying "again"..very happy daddy!
That's an excellent end to the story!
Really pleased she's liking it! You deserve every bit of satisfaction you get! 🙂 🙂
Had the 1st proper ride on the bike this weekend. Still a bit big but she's got the idea..and looks very happy!
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Pink and red - noooooooo
Mine didn't really take to it until he was 3, but then you couldn't get him off it. His balance on a bike is amazing now (he's 7 on an Islabike).
Result 😀
[b]Update[/b]
Stevied Jnr is getting pretty good on the bike now so have decided that she needs to learn how to stop using brakes. I've made some adaptors and fitted an XTR rear brake with XT brake lever.
Managed to reduce the reach on the lever by making a spacer to sit inside the adjuster barrel. Should be good for her little hands now 🙂
Brake lever £5, v-brakes £3
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That bike just keeps getting more awesome, and me more jealous! So cool. 🙂
Looks great. I can understand why mass market bikes for parents who don't know any better, have the brake on the rear but as a keen dad, did you consider putting the brake on the front and teaching your little 'un to use it properly?
Probably a bit risky as I imagine first-time brakers are pretty "on / off", rather than experts in modulation - safer to start with the back, I'd have thought?
Need the brake on the back so that they can learn to do skidz, I would have thought that would have been obvious! 😉
Thanks FB.
Did think about a front brake but decided that OTB's are much worse than skids. Plus skids are cooler, right?
Only asking because when I was a motorcycle instructor, I had a student who was great on a bike except she never used the front brake. Transpires that she had a field bike as a kit but her dad took the front brake off "because it's dangerous". Took a lot of work to get her past that.
*I am not a parent.
More pics of the missus please.
Took the wife quite a while to get use to using the front brake MTBing having been told by her mum not to use it as a kid.
I bet we'll see a hope disk on the front by xmas!
I put a front brake on my son's balance bike, and I actually think back may have been better. He rides a pedal bike really proficiently and can come down fairly steep stuff with just the front brake, standing on his pedals with his weight back.
However on the balance bike the front brake tends to tip him a bit forward as his weight is on the seat.
That's a good point for the balance bike where the weight is in the saddle.
I NEED one of those in my life!
Seriously 🙂
What a lovely gift.
Stevied Jnr is getting pretty good on the bike now [i]so have decided that she needs to learn how to stop using brakes[/i].
Would removing the brakes not make it easier? 😉
Lovely bike btw.
Good point Euro. Maybe should've rephrased it to: she needs to learn to stop, using brakes 🙂