SMALL BIKE Urgent need for Bikeability lessons

[Philip Benstead]

Urgent need for Bikeability lessons
I wanted a bicycle for an exceedingly small child aged 12.

Height 30 inches approx.

I need a bike with 2 brakes and gears.

Can anybody suggest a make, second hand considered.

[richardfm]

Frog bikes have a good reputation
https://www.frogbikes.com/en_GB/

[rjb]

Daughter has an islabike cnoc 14 and a ridgeback mx16 which might be suitable. Shes in chalfont st giles and works in the city.
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[Nearholmer]

If you can find out the child’s bike inside leg, that would help, because having a think about it, it may be as short as 12” (30cm), and most “proper bikes”, even 14” wheel ones, don’t fit a beginner below about 40cm leg. The Frog 40 is their smallest, and that is for a 40cm leg beginner, and I’ve just checked the smallest bike in our “library”, a 14” wheel Giant ARX, and that again looks as if a beginner would need 40cm legs.

[pjclinch]

Cnocs and similar are single-speed, but while Bikeability has teaching content on gears you don't need gears to do Bikeability (just as well given some kids are likely to show up on BMXs).

Pete.

[windysmithy]

Mrs Windy is using Squash bikes for bikeability training in Devon.

[Bonefishblues]

Mrs Windy is using Squash bikes for bikeability training in Devon.

Squish, perhaps?

[rareposter]

Urgent need for Bikeability lessons
I wanted a bicycle for an exceedingly small child aged 12.

Height 30 inches approx.

I need a bike with 2 brakes and gears.

Can anybody suggest a make, second hand considered.

Can you confirm 30 (three zero) inches?! Cos that is the height of an average 2-year old. And you're not going to get a bike with gears, to be honest that's barely beyond balance bike territory. 14", maybe 16" wheels at most.

(And yes, I get dwarfism, growth problems etc although the OP hasn't actually specified anything like that which is a shame cos it could have further consequences for reach, leg strength, finger strength for reaching/pulling brakes etc)

Something like Frog 40, Specialized JettSpeed...
There'll be Islabikes available secondhand if you scour the likes of eBay.

[st599_uk]

Windsor Cycling Hub are doing a charity auction soon. They may have something cheap and mechanically sound.

[windysmithy]

Mrs Windy is using Squash bikes for bikeability training in Devon.

Squish, perhaps?

Of course, pre auto correct!

[Bonefishblues]

Mrs Windy is using Squash bikes for bikeability training in Devon.

Squish, perhaps?

Of course, pre auto correct!