Bijouspud is outgrowing his Cannondale 24” bike. It’s been decent if a little on the weighty side.
Now he’s going up to a 26er I have a decent haul of 26er parts.
Stans Crests on hope pro 4’s, carbon bars and other bits. We also have a dead Scott spark 20 frame with a set of 120mm fox floats.
So is my best call of action hunting down a small Spark? Then an slx 1x something setup?
What’s the best route to a decent 26er for the boy? Or do we just buy new? Will anything fit together?

I’ve gone frame and build. Unless you’re able to spend

Cranks is the tricky thing – 140-150mm hard to come by. especially if you want to avoid square taper

I bought 2x used Orange Zest 26’s for my twin’s. Now 11 but were 9 when I bought the bikes.

These bikes are amazing, great angles, good kit installed.

Cranks is the tricky thing – 140-150mm hard to come by. especially if you want to avoid square taper

On my one sons race bike I ended up going for Rotor’s cheapest offering. I spent ages looking and gave up in the end and just threw money at it. This bike has to be legal for U12 racing, hence the single x11 groupset

bfw
I spent ages looking and gave up in the end and just threw money at it.

I’ve been the same – there’s some options out there but not a lot (search back on here). The nuclear option being Hope kids cranks (135/150mm) but at over £200 without ring or BB they’re for the committed only.

“The nuclear option being Hope kids cranks (135/150mm) but at over £200…”

I’d have thought it would be more sensible to have a (solid) longer crank cut down and rethreaded.

Crank Shortening

You can get SRAM NX cranks in 155mm

Have a look on eBay at the Airwolf shop for the frame

Totally depends what they ride and how big they are really.

Mine went from a 24″ wheel bike to a XS 27.5 frame with 26″ wheels on his 9th Birthday..
Shoved some 142mm cranks on at that point and swapped wheels gradually according to what he was riding) and went through 3 sets of cranks in-between.
Meanwhile he’s on 3rd set of forks (old Rev 32/Pikes/Lyrik, 3rd dropper (125/150/170mm) and countless wheels he’s smashed.

He’s now 13 and I should really look for an adult M frame to transfer the parts onto for him.