Vitus Kids' Mythique launches today

The 24” wheel bike looks very cool but £££ for a kids bike!

The 24” wheel bike looks very cool but £££ for a kids bike!

I imagibe resale will be reasonable, but they grow out of things so quickly, it is a LOT of money to splash

I dunno, a 24" bike should last maybe 3 years, so 6 years for the nuclear 2 kid family. By which point most bikes are relatively worthless. It's a lot to spend given suspension on kids bikes normally doesn't work very well (who knows if these forks are any different, but there's normally too much friction in the system for a 20kg load)

We had a Hellion 20, the forks worked brilliantly and I sold it for pretty much the same price I bought it, maybe lost £20 on it. I may have been lucky with timing on a pretty brilliant bike that wasn’t produced in large numbers.

My daughter currently has a Kona Process 24, another brilliant kids bike with suspension that works. Following her down trails at places like BPW you can see the shock and forks doing their job at speed and generating grip on lots of sections I wouldn’t have thought a short travel bike could. It does remain to be seen how much I can sell the Process for, hard to tell as it’s very rare to see them for sale.

I’ve just bought her another bike for Christmas, I did look at the Vitus, but the Canyon Neuron Young Hero won me over on spec and value for money…

Have watched kids on hired process 24s when out in Morzine before. Kona have equipped them with such a supple tune, they're amazing. You'd think they were on airbags rather than canned shocks. If Vitus have done similar with these then they'll be onto a winner. Any ideas of weights?