Wild Bikes Kids' Wild 16 Lightweight Bike, Mint, One Size

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The well-balanced proportions of my medium bike meant I didn’t have to ride aggressively over the front to weight the front wheel and find grip. Instead, I could keep myself centred between the wheels and found plenty of traction. The Wild’s handling is intuitive, and even with a 750Wh battery, it doesn’t feel like a chore to ride. I was able to lean the bike into corners confidently.

The Frog 44 is a new version of the really popular Frog 48, their previous sixteen inch wheel bike. They’ve introduced a lower standover for the frame, meaning children can start riding it with legs 4 cm shorter than before (i.e 44cm rather than 48cm inside leg). Most of the vital components are well spec’ed (Tektro brakes, decent rims, Jagwire cables, Shimano drivetrain… I could get nerdier). TLW: SOME OF THE NEW WILD MODELS COME WITH WHEELS FROM YOUR NEW SISTER BRAND, OQUO. WITH THAT CONNECTION BETWEEN ORBEA AND OQUO, HOW MUCH DO YOU TALK BETWEEN THE TWO COMPANIES TO COME TO A FINAL PRODUCT?

Seat is made by Selle Royal, with Wild Bikes branding, which is not listed in the specification, but is reassuring brand component wise

We’ve reviewed the slightly larger Forme Cubley 18, and we were very impressed. The Cubley 16 is just a slightly smaller version and equally as good.

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Until recently Decathlon’s kids bikes were all heavy steel framed affairs, but they’re been upgrading their range and the B’Twin 16 900is a great example of what they’ve managed to deliver. Only gripe, the colours for the 20″ aren’t particularly inspiring, blue and purple which is quite nice and bright pink and silver which is also quite nice, but the 18″ colours are much more interesting.”

ORBEA WILD Full Suspension 2021 Carbon 160mm Travel, FRONT TRIANGLE: Carbon, REAR TRIANGLE: Carbon, FiberLink, BATTERY COVER: Carbon, Boost 12x148 Bosch Gen4 Next up Jim got in touch, to say “Just popped in to have a look at these bikes. Unfortunately they had sold the only 20 inch Wild Bike they had, which is the one that I was most interested in. I weighed the 18 at 6.8kg and the 24 at 9.4kg.”Then, yesterday Jennifer got in touch. She’d actually taken her Cycle Sprog into her local Go Outdoors and had a sneaky test ride! She told us: