I want to get one of my kids a bicycle for his forthcoming birthday, and I know he quite likes my CX – a bike I use for winter road riding, general off-road/trail riding (when I do it), and commuting.
He was asking me the other day if it would be possible to put knobbly tyres on a used road bike, and then added ‘bike’ to his birthday list (specifying ‘discs’!)
Now, Mrs SR and I have no idea how much we can spend, but I don’t imagine a good deal more than a couple of hundred. Nonetheless, I am wondering if anyone has a small road bike lying around that I might be able to work up into a road/off-road machine. Maybe something with cable discs, but I don’t think it will matter if I can fit, say, some 28 mm knobbly tyres on it.
He’s a growing kid, and can currently get himself around on a 52-ish cm frame.