Holly has been struggling with 20 inch wheels not rolling smoothly over bumps for a while, but her legs have been too short for a 24 inch wheeled bike. Luckily, a growth spurt over the last couple of months has coincided with her birthday and she has taken delivery of a very purple new Beinn 24 Isla bike.
For those not in the know, Isla make ‘proper’ kids bikes: lightweight, kid-sized adult-style components and no daft cheapo suspension which never seems to work on kids bikes anyway….
Based out of Ludlow in Shropshire, they even have a test track your kids can zoom around to get the feel of the right size http://www.islabikes.co.uk/
Hopefully, her next bike she will be a full-sized 26 inch, so this one should keep her going for a while. Today it had its first mud splatters, getting ridden around Gentleshaw. Tomorrow it will do the first leg of her Sport Relief Challenge, and next weekend its first MTBO!