Didn't Litespeed\Lynskey make one of these a few years ago?

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I don't know about a push bike, but I recall a few decades ago Litespeed made a ti trike for Bob Roll's daughter...

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It's pretty silly, but why not. I think the same thing every time A car company or AMD or whoever rebrands a crappy Wal-Mart bike and tries to hawk it... at some point it'll become some weird piece of memorabilia.

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That bike has two purposes:
1) be awesome when you have to carry it home one handed (with a crying toddler in the other arm). Been there, done that, they get pretty heavy after a while.

2) Getting the Big S a shitload of free advertising.

This is silly, but whatever. People pay $10000 extra for a "gold edition" of a luxury car just to have some tacky gold trim and no other extras.

I WOULD pay a solid amount for a carbon kid's bike with "click" gears. Our youngest is small for his age, and needs gears for hills in our area. But, hands too small and weak for cheap shit grip shifters. I found ONE British bike maker that sold a lighter alloy kid's bike with "trigger" shifters in his size.

I'd hock up some more money for carbon mtb or cross bike for the kiddos.

But this

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I'm not sure how to feel about that.





It was mildly entertaining.

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Gwen got one for Stanley.

It wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't already been done for 1/3 of the price...

https://www.dimondbikes.com/product/miner/

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I don't know why a $999 kids bike would be more offensive than $700 derailleur pulleys. I wouldn't buy this, but it doesn't seem outrageous


Haha wow, that is awesome!

Well Specialized sent it to them as part of their contract. Honestly I think that sends a horrible signal to your fan base, but whatever.

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Could not agree more.

How so, what's the signal it sends to her fans? I am genuinely interested in knowing that perspective.

"Hey, look at this thousand dollar toddler bike?" In the middle of a pandemic. If you don't see the problem, then I can't lead you to water.

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To be clear, this is just a glide bike...no pedals. This is absurd because your kid is gonna age out of this in like six months. However, it might not be a bad idea if you plan on having 6+ kids because it probably will last the many beatings from kids. Also, it's less than five pounds AND has a handle for carrying, that's awesome! Especially when you have to lug it home because your kid is crying and refuses to ride it....happened sooooo many times, especially with our third kid.

I would buy it if it had thru axles.

// it doesn't look like it can be fitted to growing .. p.s.: maybe the developers are in an age growing stopped long before ..

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in fairness this company also just released two new road bikes that retail at what, 12 000 dollars each?

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And the seat is too high.

Alpha one compatible is a must and Needs disc brakes for sure

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I don’t understand balance bikes at all. We bought our daughter a small bike from Guardian bikes and followed their instructions with excellent results. Remove the pedals and use the bike as a “balance bike”. When they’re ready put the pedals on. No balance bike needed. No training wheels either. She was able to ride it starting at age 3.

She got the carbon one, or aluminium one?

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It sounds like you understand them perfectly.

Oh hey! I know you can’t resist responding to me. What I don’t know why one buys a separate balance bike. Versus using a bike with pedals as a balance bike. Does that sit better with you?

The Hotwalk is a pure racing machine. Fully optimized. Maybe a 2-in-1 recreational bike is enough for your daughter. There's nothing wrong with that. You shouldn't feel bad at all.

But some people like to go full send.

She said carbon on IG.

When I saw this it reminded me to unfollow her after her comments relative to the election.

Those kids have bike handling skills that would put a lot of adults to shame...and on wet pavement no less!

No kidding. How about the sexy chainstay pic?

The average person probably doesn't have whatever combination of skillset and desire is required to do what you described. I sure don't. (the desire part). Much easier to buy a balance bike (~$100 one, not the $999 racing machine...) and then a pedal bike when they're ready.

Plus, not all kids learn to ride a real bike in a linear progression. My youngest spent a long time in the gray area where he could do the pedals, but still wasn't totally confident. There were days when he was up for the struggle of pedaling, and others when he wanted to go back to the balance bike so he could go fast and keep up with his older brothers and sisters. No way I would have wanted to remove/replace his pedals based on his whims of the day.

Race bike. Lol.

I don’t care what anybody else spends their money on. If you want to get it and go for the strider series ... great. As a training tool pre-pedals I found it super effective.

In my house we borrowed a balance bike from a neighbor. My kids both had training wheels and were asking for bigger bikes. I was not wanting to size up the bikes with training wheels.

My neighbor saw me struggling running down the street holding onto the seat with one kid ... and loaned me their balance bike. Wooden bike called skut I think. 2 hours after gliding around ... maybe less ... it was almost instantaneous ... both kids were pedaling away on their pedal bikes without training wheels.

So I guess hope your neighbor buys it ... and your kids can borrow it. Lol.

Meh... of all things to get outraged of, this doesn't even register. It's a halo product, and they gave it to their star sponsored athlete, I think general public are smart enough to figure that out