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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Martin Haglev –
Picking a children’s DH bike is no easy task for any parents out there. Having trawled the internet for a few months and read through endless online forums, pages and threads the decision was really pretty easy to make. Meekboyz is the only manufacturer who deliver proper bikes solely with a childrens focus and aiming to lift their riding abilities to a new height.
We contacted Steve over at Meekboyz and we were immediately greeted by a personal service and great guiding in terms of shipping, setting up the bike properly, hints and tips which all larger manufacturers are missing to provide through a buying process. As a customer I really felt Meekboyz had a personal interest that our son received a bike perfectly fitted for him and his level of riding. Priceless!
Shipping went like a dream. We received the bike shortly after having placed the order and it was solidly wrapped without any possibility for damages non whatsoever as it was wrapped multiple times and it actually took us probably an hour to get rid of all bubblewrap which really felt like the best never ending xmas gift opening ever. Good start!
Assembly went quick and easy as all major parts were already fitted in NZ at Meekboyz manufacturing facilities. It was pretty much plug’n play. However I would like to mention the instant quality feel you get mounting everything together. Here we are talking about the most highend components money can buy. Lightweight taken to a whole new level. Beautifully machined parts and bike feels unrealistically tight and LIGHT you can’t help yourself asking why not all bike manufacturers deliver like this .
My 10 year old, 145 cm and 35 kg old boy, Nico felt immediately home on the bike. His level increased instantly as the geometry and linkage together with the limited weight gave him such a confidence boost that his riding level went through the roof. Having struggled to keep up with him on the trails before I could now forget to keep up.. Big airs, small airs, whoops sections are all child’s play now as the bike swallows all landings and is super balanced in the air. God knows where this will take us but most likely not to the hospital as I’ve never seen him riding safer although bigger ever before.
Sure, the pricetag was bit stiff but retrospectively it was definitely all worth it. Now, my wife and I can ride at our own speed being lapped by our youngest. Hey, that’s what we all dream off right?
I have no idea how Meekboyz does it but they deliver 10/10 on all points. 100% quality right there!
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Now they need to make an adult bike for me 😊
Martin Haglev
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.