Others' opinions about coaster brakes for very small children? I'm open, but I wonder if most 4 to 7 year olds have the hand strength to safely operate hand brakes, especially when these are designed for human hands?
I look back at my own childhood and I don't recall that the coaster brakes on my 20" (age 6) and 24" (age 7 or 8 to 11, when I got my first hand brakes: rod operated!) Schwinn cruisers with rear wheel coaster brakes only ever put me in danger, and I do very much recall the pleasure of long, sweeping skid stops: accelerate hard on a dirt or gravel surface, then stomp hard on the coaster brake as you make a wide, dramatic swerve up to your stopping point. On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:42 AM Nick Shoemaker <fiddleha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’m intrigued by this too, but a little puzzled by the coaster brake - can > anyone fill me in on the logic of choosing that over hand brakes for a kids > bike? My 4yo is riding a Woom 3 and I feel like the lack of a coaster brake > has made for an easier transition on the type of riding available to us > (easy singletrack, pump tracks, and greenways). I’m definitely onboard with > a RivKid offering after seeing the inevitable latest “evolution” of Woom: > $750, blacked-out, and be-disc’d… > > https://woom.com/en_US/explore-kids-bikes > On Saturday, September 14, 2024 at 2:23:14 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> I was glad to see a new Blahg: >> https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/grant-petersens-blog/augus-blahg >> >> There otta be a law that Grant has to produce these at least twice >> monthly -- it's my second-favorite bicycling screed after Bike Snob. >> >> I would have bought a child's bike, even at $900, particularly at the >> 2010 dollar equivalent, for my daughter if Rivendell had made them when she >> was a child. >> >> With very sloping top tube, a stem with long quill, and reachback bar you >> could probably get 6 years growth of of the bike, say age 6 to 12. Before >> that, kiddie bikes, after that, multigeared bikes or move on to the iPhone. >> >> After 3 kiddie 3- and 2-wheelers I bought my daughter an Electra Townie >> 3i* with coaster brake and 3 speed Shimano hub for her 10th birthday; she >> loved it and the even-slacker-than-Rivendell feet-forward geometry let me >> at 5' 10 " ride it comfortably after raising the saddle. That was a well >> designed bike -- well designed for its market. >> >> * That "i." One is gobsmacked (lovely word) by the absolute lack of >> honest in marketing. This monicker was obviously meant (this was 2011) to >> pull buyers' emotions to feelings of >> "internet/digital/modern/advanced/praiseworthy" and get them slavering to >> hand over $$. But it was a well designed and well built bike for the demo >> and price point. >> >> Does anyone know *who* is trying to legally ban coaster brakes, and what >> their alternative is that they hope to sell in the place of coaster brakes? >> >> https://youtu.be/k-tizOwQhMA?t=186 >> >> Patrick "Ho Hi, Ho Hi" in ABQ, NM >> >> -- >> >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing >> services >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* >> >> *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* >> >> *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b92a654c-71c8-480a-a5ec-a86a86b951e4n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b92a654c-71c8-480a-a5ec-a86a86b951e4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgv_w4OqUrrCPaYFi1J76MMhjbcM0zpDiXJAkRnf5xF3Gg%40mail.gmail.com.
