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Bicycle Birthday

  • 11-06-2014 1:50pm
    #1
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭


    My nephew is turning 10. What is a popular type of bicycle for his age?


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  • #2
    Tombo2001
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    What is your budget?

    I've been doing a bit of research on bikes for 6 year olds. I dont think the market for ten year olds is that different.

    The big question I would see is: how easy is the bike to cycle.

    Why would it not be easy to cycle?

    because-
    -its the wrong size
    - its too heavy
    - its got cheap gears that are impossible to change
    - its got cheap brakes that are too stiff

    Weight is particularly important.

    The best childrens bikes are Isla and Puky. Cant get them in Irish shops, and very expensive. The worst childrens bikes are spiderman or peppa pig or whatever character bikes that you pick up cheap in a supermarket.

    One place worth looking is Chain Reaction cycles, biggest online cycling shop in the world, based outside Belfast and deliver to ROI for free.

    I would imagine any type of 'mountain bike' is popular.


  • #3
    CramCycle
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    Does your nephew strike you as an off road type of cyclist, cycling round on saturday afternoon with friends or will it be used to get back and forth to school/friends houses, or all of the above.


  • #4
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭restive


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Does your nephew strike you as an off road type of cyclist, cycling round on saturday afternoon with friends or will it be used to get back and forth to school/friends houses, or all of the above.

    He will be using it on a country road. Kinda all of the above. My nephew is light build. Thin not stocky.


  • #5
    CramCycle
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    restive wrote: »
    He will be using it on a country road. Kinda all of the above.
    Last question is what distances?

    Sounds like a MTB/hybrid will be the bike of choice, a BMX will be too small a gear for any distance and the MTB/Hybrid can go off road if needed.

    What is the budget for the actual last question?


  • #6
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭restive


    I'd say no more than 2 mile at a time. I am ok with €100 to €150 euro. Maybe more for right bike.


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  • #7
    restive
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    Am i being too tight on the budget?


  • #8
    slideshow bob
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    If you've access to a decent local bike shop you'll be able to get something that works for your nephew. It might be a bit more than you're current budget, but not by much.

    Buying a bike for a youngster is a rare thing for most people. But the bike shop owner sees people like you (and me) most days of the week and has a good sense of what works.

    In my case the shop owner put the youngster up on a bike that looked too big, saying he'll get the hang of it quickly (he did), will grow into it soon (he did) and it'll last him a good few years (it did). 6 years on the bike is with his younger sibling and still going well.


  • #9
    CramCycle
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    Not really as he is at an age where growth spurts are about to come into play, you don't want a bike too big for use immediately nor one that costs a bomb but he has grown out of within a year.

    Halfords have a range of cheap hybrid/MTB bikes, for between 150 and 250 that would do the job.

    That said it might be better to you to either bring him to a store on his birthday or go around the like of adverts.ie that will have a load of bikes for this age where the kids have grown out of them and then use the money saved to get your LBS to do a full safety check and service.


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