Looking at a kids bike, 24" wheels for our youngest daughter. She's upgrading from a Wild Bikes (Go Outdoors brand) and has been excellent. Their 24" bikes are out of stock however.
Aware of the usual suspects, eg Islabikes and Frog bikes, but wondered whether anyone has experience of the Cuda bikes range (stocked by Decathlon and others)?
Or any other suggestions?
At that size, we went for Orbea MX24. And we were happy enough with the first one to get another next time round.
If the budget allows, Early Rider, the new Rigid specialized Riprocks look good as well.
My youngest has a Vitus 20" which is brilliant. They did a 24" version, rigid with big tyres, disc brakes and great build quality. Worth a look.
My daughter has a Ghost Powerkid 24. I think they've changed the name now (thankfully it doesn't say powerkid anywhere on it!) and it's been perfect. The suspension forks actually do something!
Got a Cannondale cujo24 for my son, it’s a mini fat bike. Really good frame and the big tyres are really confidence inspiring. Pretty light for what it is too.
Go Outdoors have the 24” Polygon down to £200 right now and it was pretty light when I checked the other week. Stock online appears to have run out but my local store had a few.
I built my kids 24 inch bikes from a frame. The orbea laufy bikes are pretty decent but all depends on your budget I guess.
My boy's Hoy Bonaly has been excellent. Much better geometry (and lighter) than the frog equivalent. Was at Glentress yesterday and he was doing well on the blue trails.
Trek and Scott both do excellent 24" rigid fat-tyred bikes.
My youngest lad on a Scott Scale 24" is doing jumps (featured a send in a GMBN video about 6 months ago) and riding local black routes. The fat tyres do a great job with light riders. The only modification i've made is to put a mega range freehub on it.
Our two had Orbea MX24, with rigid forks as I thought the cheap oil fork was a bit pointless. Very impressed with them, and me being a bike snob we'd only had Islabikes before that.
First up, how tall is your daughter?
My middle one has a Vitus Jnr thingy with 24" wheels and it's ace, previously to that the eldest when he was 24" wheel sized had a Saracen Mantra 24W, also ace. Both have air forks for kids, hydraulic discs and 1x gearing.
Anyone got experience of the Polygon 24” junior bike? Down to £200 seems a snip and looked good last time I ran my eye over it in Go Outdoors?