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This year my 4 year old kids have been spending most of their time on family trails, skate parks and pumptracks and I realised that a slack 29er wasn’t much fun for these things. Either it sucked on the pumptracks or it was a struggle to ride slow enough when out on a trail with them (also 29” wheels smooth stuff out more than 14 and 16” ones) so I built up a £30 Charge blender frame from spares) for dad duties.
So far it’s been great and we’ve all been loving our time together.
Let’s see the bikes you guys and gals have built/bought to play with your kids.
I built up a £30 Charge blender frame
Billy bargain :O
Was it you that discussed these with me on here before? Amazingly comfortable frame but my god it was horrible to pedal anywhere with that seat tube angle.
With a similar idea, I built up a Planet X Jack Flash frame using bits lying and chucked new tyres on it. Was great while kids were doing easy stuff and mucking around local pump tracks. Sold it on when the kids stopped that sort of riding in favour of proper trail riding.
As usual my first attempt at posting a picture was too rushed and failed 
This from this
It probably was me, I had one for a bit donkeys years ago and always fancied another for fun. They just felt so nice. This one has near rock hard forks and 60+psi in the tyres. It rolls much faster than when it had Super Tacky Minions/High Rollers on it
and yeah, the small frame and Seat angle made it hard to ride anywhere but down.
I think all in, including powder coat (friend of my dad), the wrong rear wheel (oops), the wrong Chang guide (Gusset Bachelor didn’t have enough adjustment so used an old Superstar BB mounted one), a free half link chain from here, £3.99 Gusset push on grips, stickers and new tyres it came out at a few pennies over £100 (don’t tell the wife, I told her is was just over £30 all in).
That Jack Flash sure does look shiny