Description
This extremely versatile mountain-bike is the rockstar of our Meekboyz range. It has been perfectly designed, manufactured, tuned and optimized for its intended purpose of serving as a multi-functional kids’ bike for up-and-coming riders of all trail disciplines. Its stealthy, multi-dimensional design allows for its intelligent, triple function in downhill, cross country and dirt jumping. It is essentially three-bikes-in-one. The beauty being parents now need only to invest in one bike that can be used effectively in a wide range of riding contexts, including ‘black diamond’ trails.
The 20’ has more suspension and travel than any other child’s bike and is the only double pivot kids’ bike on the market. The suspension is designed especially with kids in mind so there is no need to tamper with the shock anymore. The 20” MiniBeast traits work in unison to keep the bike behaving better at speed in the rough which allows young riders to access trails at speed that they previously couldn’t attempt.
The smart bike-suspension means the shock can be locked out to transform the bike into a dirt jumper or it can be half locked-out to serve in a cross country context. This triple-purpose locking system turns the bike into a multi-purpose riding machine.
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.
Joshua Greenhalgh –
We recently purchased a 20″ MiniBeast for our 6 year old son (H: 46″, W: 46lbs). Like so many other parents, we were looking for a kids bike without limitations to allow our little guy to progress as far as he wanted in this amazing sport. There was a noticeable jump in his confidence even on his first day and it was a pleasure to follow behind him and watch his line get more and more aggressive with each lap. This bike is literally one of one, it is hard to argue there is even a close competitor in terms of quality, design or components on a 20″ bike. If you found this page and are reading these reviews, you won’t find a single reason to not buy one. Steve and his family are deeply rooted in the biking world and his connection to the community is unique and appreciated as we continue to keep in touch by sharing our adventures and how we could not be happier with the bike. We can’t wait to watch our little guy continue to grow and develop on the MiniBeast and look forward to moving onto the Beast.
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Jason Voytilla –
We test drove the Mini Beast last summer during the US Open at Killington, and needless to say, it was love at first sight and first ride.
Re-riding some of the same trails with the Mini Beast, We saw an instantaneous improvement in ability and confidence in our son.
The suspension design and quality of components respond to any trail perfectly, whether its technical rock gardens or sending it on jump trails. The bike’s light weight allows it to be playful, yet handle anything in its way. Beyond the bike, Donna, Steve, Rory, and Toby are all great people who take pride in their bikes and want the best for their customers – that helped to seal the deal. We look forward to one day moving up to the 24″ Beast!
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Neil Mcvicar –
After much deliberation I purchased my son the 20” Minibeast at age 6 as he was outriding his current branded full suspension bike .
I knew the bike’s weight components would make significant advances in his riding .
We’ve had the bike now 18 months and every ride, I’m left shocked with the confidence and progression of his riding !
This bike allows a current 7 year old to hit step downs, road gaps, steep technical sections never ridden before on 20” wheels . The bike allows forgiveness and precision in his riding. The bike is set up with linkage that allows the adult Fox shocks to run pressures associated with adults. A very very clever a kids’ bike that actually works. I can’t praise the bike enough – so glad I bought it; plenty of growth left in the bike and not wishing his life away but excited to look forward to getting the 24″ Beast .
We look forward to weekends and what trails to hit together. A great bike if your kid is an aspiring ripper; you won’t regret buying a Minibeast – best biking decision I’ve made to date. 👌 Neil Mcvicar Billyneilmc dad
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Kristian Manietta –
We met Donna as she was walking past the village gondola in Whistler with the 20″ mini beast. I couldn’t help myself and asked where she got that bike. Turns out, that it was her and her husband Steven Meeks bike and we spent the next hour talking about the bike and the brand. All the while our 6 year old son was riding up and down stairs on the Mini Beast. While a carbon bike was nice, what got me was the travel.
Our son rides well and we had invested in a Little Shredder which had been instrumental him with his riding development along with the great coaching in DFX camps. Though the travel (with the breaking bumps in Whistler over Crankworx) and for the jumps and drops he was doing, was a little limited and sometimes scary.
After spending more time with the Meeks, and getting to ride with Steve, Toby and Rory, we decided to invest in a 20″ MiniBeast for Mack. At first, we were concerned that he would quickly grow out of it, but Rory was riding his MiniBeast until he was 9 and had just stepped up to the Beast. So even if it was only a couple of years we were ok with that.
Once on the mini beast, we saw immediate improvements. Better handling, able to do bigger jumps and suck up the crazy breaking bumps at the time and it only got better as the season here finished. We can’t wait for the summer of 2018. Look out.
Kristian Manietta (Mack’s dad).
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Neil mcvicar –
This bike looks insane quality .
AdminMeekBoyz –
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.