
Cheers for your coment plwainder a little artistic licence was used in the article, the point we were trying to put over is that bike manufacturers pay very little attention to the needs of kids when designing there bikes. They are often too heavy, poor quality parts with no thought of the childs usability. eg he has worn through the side walls of his wheels in less than 10months no amount of maintainance will prevent this, just poor parts used. As it says in the article the bike is not a downhill bike which is what Haz does on it, but with nothing coming close to a DH bike available to buy, you have got to use the next best thing. If you could see where and how Harry rides, it would become a bit clearer that kids can and do need better quality bikes and parts and that there is a market out there for this type of thing. Rest assured his old Scott bike will have the original new parts put on it and it will go back to an xc spec for our family rides, so me and mum don't have to go "Downhill" Also his bike does get regular service's which he gets very very involved in. Great point though Cheers Bono
Jan 15, 2012 at 10:54