Description
In the world of high-performance sport, there is no substitute for top quality components. These are bikes built for riding families, who value and desire a high-performance ride, other than a B-grade mass-market bike, that lacks the higher performance capabilities required for full downhill. All Beast bikes sport a progressive linkage designed to run a standard adult rear shock at an average of 100 – 150 psi. Due to the extensive leverage, the bike is able to perform like an adult bike.
For children to achieve a seamless riding progression and experience an accelerated riding performance, the best quality riding components matter greatly. The secret to a high-performance downhill bike is in the sum of its parts. Our Beast range contains select high-performance riding components and modern light-weight materials.
Our signature bikes are hand-built, lightweight and capable of delivering high-performance riding experiences for all kids. They are designed to provide the authentic downhill riding experience to children, removing the current limitations and barriers of mass-market kids’ mountain bikes. Our carbon kid’s bikes are capable of conquering advanced downhill trails and track features.
Gear Junkie Review –
Gear Junkie Review
Built for young riders with big talent, these carbon-fiber downhill bikes are downright drool-worthy. We took them for a test ride to see if they’re worth the money.
I wanted to buy a bike from Steve Meek after talking with him for only a few minutes. It was his passion — a simple and genuine desire to build the absolute best downhill bikes — along with a charismatic blend of confidence and humility that I found so infectious.
Meek Boyz Kids Mountain Bike
The combination was so compelling that I found myself seriously considering how to tell my wife that I’d just spent more than a quarter of my annual earnings on a bike that my son would outgrow in 2-3 years.
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Pink Bike –
Pink Bike Review
Do you remember your first serious mountain bike? If you were lucky, you might have had something half decent, but the majority of us likely started off on something a bit more, ahem, rustic. And if you were a fortunate youngin who had parents to help out, there’s a good chance that said bike was at least one size too large for you… you know, so it’d be the last bike they ever had to buy. Now that it’s 2017, there’s an entire segment of second or third generation little rippers, many of whom with parents that ride and know the performance difference between a junker and a bike designed to let someone excel.
There are only a few options to choose from if you’re looking for a high-end kids bike, and these three from Meekboyz are probably the only option if you’d like to see your little guy or girl on a carbon fiber machine that’s exotic enough to make adults wish they were three or four feet tall. All three feature carbon fiber front and rear triangles, a dual-link suspension layout designed to work well with low shock pressures that kids require, and dream-worthy builds that include carbon fiber rims, titanium spokes, Hope and SRAM running gear, and suspension from Fox.
The Meekboyz Beast, pictured above, is a 24” wheeled bike with 180mm of rear wheel travel and a 180mm stroke Fox 36 up front. Like the other two machines, the Beast is built up around a carbon fiber frame manufactured in Asia, and it employs the same dual-link suspension layout that’s designed for light riders and off the shelf shocks. And while the frame certainly looks wild, you’ll find “standard” 12 x 142mm rear hub spacing, a normal seat post size, and an 83mm wide threaded bottom bracket shell. Sure, the Hope crankset is short to better suit little legs, but the rest of the build is relatively normal, even if it makes most full-sized bikes look like budget builds.
The Beast’s claimed weight is right around 26.5lbs, and it has a $7,500 USD price tag. That’s a hell of a lot of chores.
A lot of grom bikes on the market feature some variation of a single pivot suspension layout, likely to help keep costs as low as possible but, as you can probably tell, that’s not really the Meekboyz M.O., is it? The bikes’ carbon fiber swingarms are molded in two separate pieces before being joined together about halfway up the chain and seat stays, and the aluminum links are machined in New Zealand and then shipped to Meekboyz’s Honk Kong HQ to be assembled.
Want your little person’s name machined into the link? No problem, dad. All of the pivots rotate on sealed cartridge bearings, and all three models come with needle bearings installed in both shock eyelets.
The wildest looking of the three has to be the MiniBeast, a 20” wheeled bike with 100mm of rear wheel travel that’s paired with a 120mm stroke fork. The littlest bike’s build is just as Gucci as its bigger brothers, with 20” carbon rims, titanium spokes, and fancy running gear from SRAM and Hope, all of which adds up to a $6,800 USD MSRP. Could 26” wheels make a comeback on in-betweener sized bikes? The MegaBeast rolls on 26” wheels, carbon fiber, of course, has 185mm of rear wheel travel, a 200mm fork, and a $8,400 USD price tag.
CJ Harper –
This bike is a GAME CHANGER! My 8yr old son jumped on the 24″ Beast mid-season and immediately we saw a boost in his confidence on the hill. The last few months of riding have been awesome! In the past we had primarily stuck to the easier/intermediate machine built trails, but now he’s ripping the natural and rock trails too. He’s also clearing 20 foot table tops these days. All-in-all my son loves the bike. What has been most impressive though, is the fact that we are riding the whole mountain together now!