Re: Less-than-inspiring race re****ts

In article <FAYUj.2666$7k7.2413@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Bob Schwartz <bob.schwartz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> > In article <qRDUj.9182$iK6.7672@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  Bob Schwartz <bob.schwartz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> joseph.santaniello@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >>> That story gave me a BIG smile. 16 miles is long for kids. How old
is
> >>> she? And just out of curiosity, what was the winning FM quotient?
> >> She's 13. She has a cousin that is the same height and has
> >> a road bike, we tired it out last summer and it was too
> >> different from what she had grown up with. Also, she's been
> >> in this freakish growth phase. I've been waiting for that
> >> to level off a bit before dumping money into gear. Maybe
> >> this summer she gets her first road bike.
> > 
> > With the caution that you'd be better off with her riding a bad bike
she 
> > likes than a road bike she dislikes, you might consider a tiny CX
bike, 
> > if only for the top-mount brake levers.
> 
> That's a very cool bike.
> 
> At 13 my kid is well into adult sizes, she's as tall as her
> mom. I didn't push road bikes with her cousin's bike because
> her cousin is older and has stopped growing, so it wasn't
> something she's going to grow out of. And at the time my
> kid was doing this alien growth thing, so any bike she got
> was not going to fit for long.

Compact geometry is your friend!

> But at some point this summer a road bike will appear. It's
> time, and she's ready.

Good on ya. Like I say, it may not hurt to go with top-mounts.

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