Comments on: Choosing a Kid’s Bike: Focus on Quality or Price? https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/choosing-a-kids-bike-focus-on-quality-or-price/ Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully. Sat, 17 Sep 2022 13:31:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 By: One Frugal Girl https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/choosing-a-kids-bike-focus-on-quality-or-price/comment-page-1/#comment-719508 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:34:18 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=8130#comment-719508 In reply to Jen.

Thanks for the comment! We decided on a used Trek bike. I know it’s a 16 inch, but I’m not sure of the type. I believe it might be a Jet 16. It ended up costing us nearly as much as a new one, (we saved about $50), because it didn’t have training wheels which were priced at $30. I wanted to skip the training wheels all together, but my husband thinks the little guy should ride for a week or two with them just to get used to pedaling. I think it’s the right choice, but we won’t know until he climbs aboard and tries it out. We plan to give it to him this weekend.

]]> By: Jen https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/choosing-a-kids-bike-focus-on-quality-or-price/comment-page-1/#comment-718565 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:53:45 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=8130#comment-718565 9 yrs ago, when our (fairly tall) oldest son was 3.5 (and I was pg w/ the younger son) we bought the $200 Trek – a Jet 16. He rode it for 4 summers. The next summer the younger one started on it and we got a used 20″ Specialized for the older one at a bike shop for around $100. Both bikes have held up great – after 8 summers of riding the Trek still looked and functioned as new. We sold it for $50 – the younger one is now on the 20″. So net cost of less than $20/summer for the Trek! I admit, I am a bit of a bike snob – I would never buy a discount store type bike. I’ve seen other friends get them and have their kids complain they are much harder to pedal. My opinion – if you can find a used good brand one at a bike store that your son likes and fits him on the lowest seat position, grab it. But if you can’t, invest in the Trek since you have another one who will ride it as well.

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