My son has outgrown his 24" Cannondale Trail. I fancy looking for a 26" donor bike / frame and building one up. What can you recommend in the way of searches. I'm guessing 13/14/15" frame.
He's almost 12 & approx 150cm.
Full-suss or hardtail?
For a full-suss, you can't go wrong with something like a Giant Anthem or Trance, especially the women's "Liv" version which tend to be more readily available in the smaller sizes. They do an XS version of many of their frames, which is great for younger kids and the frames are excellent quality and pretty light too.
Thinking HT as cheaper, but wouldn't rule out FS.
Build one up for my son recently:
On-One 456 Evo2 frame
Rockshoz Pike 454
XT 1 x 10 (Sunrace 11-42 cassette & Goatlink) with SRAM NX 155mm cranks
SLX brakes
Rockshox Reverb (external) dropper
Hope hubs with Stans Flow 26" rims
DMR v12s
Frame & cranks new, rest used.
duplicate post
Just picked up from a guy at work an ancient Planet X Jumping Jack Flash bike for him to try out. Once I've removed the U lock, wing mirror, rack, bar bag mount, and 120mm stem it might be a starting point. It's tricky, it's an old bike I can have for cheap, but will need forks, or go whole hog on something newer.
I know its 27.5 wheels but this looks good. 13.5" frame.
www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/cube-sting-wls-140-sl-27.5-frame-coral-n-iridium-643119/wg_id-9003
Genesis
Just bought the 24
Whyte 403, not bad weight, 26” wheels 13” frame, hydraulic disk brakes, air sprung fork and will take a dropper.
Interested....