Looking for a hard tail for a 6yo who’s learning to love the trails and having fun at the bike park.
Narrowed it down to the Commencal Ramones 20 or the Kona Honzo 20.
Thoughts?
by ib12111
Looking for a hard tail for a 6yo who’s learning to love the trails and having fun at the bike park.
Narrowed it down to the Commencal Ramones 20 or the Kona Honzo 20.
Thoughts?
by ib12111
2 Comments
Both look great. I will say that the suntour fork is an anchor. On my daughters 27.5 it weighed almost 7lbs, and performance was awful. Better off without it.
My daughter rode an REI Co-op bike at that age that was pretty similar spec but a little bit cheaper. I upgraded the tires on it and put hydraulic brakes on it for cheap.
So I have some thoughts on this as I went through similar with my son. Both of those will be fine choices. I really like the fat tires, you can run crazy low pressure on them and get a lot of cushioning, to the point that suspension forks don’t matter much for most trail riding.
My son is riding a 20″ specialized riprock (I recommend them too) with 2.8″s and a 60mm I think fork. They dropped the fork from newer models I think. The only time I see him use any of the travel is on bigger hits like when he is jumping down a staircase or something. Even then rigid is probably fine with the big volume tires, but the fork is nice to have.
One thing is I would try avoid grip shift (eg revoshift). I feel like it actually makes it harder to shift, I would probably worry about whether they would accidentally twist it in rough terrain or on a landing.
I put a trigger shifter on my kids bike and he just instinctively knew how to use it.