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Hi All My girls are starting to outgrow their 16" and want to get them 20 inch. Any recommendations on which brands you have been happy with. I was leaning away from models with gears. More weight, costs and to go wrong. Do your kids use the gears? My girls are just turned 4 and 5 probably wont use gears for a couple more years.

Any suggestions for going to watch with two little one? If I park along the Cable Station road, will we still get to a good spot. Plumb Pudding will probably too far to get too.

I have just completed a restore on the exact same bike for a friend. Totally worth it. Unfortunately I did not take too many before and after pictures.

Gumboots !!! I few years back the race village was just mud, and tractors were used to pull cars out the car park. Have fun everyone!!

I can recommend a cheap plastic balance bike from Shoprite. My daughter had a cheap plastic one, because the one mentioned above where too big at the time. Bought her a Y-Bike for 2nd birthday and she stopped riding because it was too heavy. Went and bought a second slighter bigger plastic bike and loves riding again. I now have a brand new Y-bike sitting in the garage.

Hi All I am also now looking into the balance bikes. What I have seen so far is: Muna - Good price but does not have a steering limiter. Is the steering limiter important? I like the idea of them not dropping the bike and picking it up again, while the brake cable keeps wrapping around the post etc. (less admin) Y- Bike - saddle height higher than the Muna, and a bit big for my little one. Negative is that it only has two heights, based on two wheel mounts on the forks. First Bike looks cool, but on the expensive side and I have not seen one. JD Bug, could only find on Take a Lot, with it showing out of stock Other options?

I am no expert but have had some experience so my 2 cents worth... You can definitely ride an Enduro style bike. There are different graded routes, Green, Blue, Red and Black. I went with my wife and had 160mm travel bikes and all the Green and Blue routes were perfect. In fact, if you are not super technical and want to hit the big gap jumps and drop offs, then as Enduro bike may even be better. On the blue and red routes, all the bigger obstacles had "chicken" runs if need be. If I get an opportunity to go again, I would probably stick to 160mm bike. It allowed us to also ride some of the trails between the marked routes where the guys on full downhill bikes were pushing up the short hills etc. Black runs are definitely more suited to downhill rigs. All I can say is that this thread brings back great memories.

Please take some photos for me. Laptop and phone got swiped out my car at the gym and lost all my photos from my Morzine trip Pretty bummed about that. You will need to lose the moffy full face helmets and pads to make them look more authentic. But then I wasn't running any black tracks either! Super jealous of everyone going !!! One day when I am big I will have to go back.

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Thanks, I have been looking forward to this review. Having previously owned an AMS I can vouch that it is super fast. (Still on a Cube) Did you compare times against similar bikes on a specific route or segment.

Yes it will be very interesting. I would take the Cube over the others but that's my opinion. I would love to see a review on my current bike, the Cube Stereo 120 HPC.

Great to see a review on the Cube been done. Look forward to reading the results.

I had my lap top re - appropriated the other day and lost a lot of my photos. I am specifically bummed about my photos from Morzine in 2013. Had to copy the few I posted here to try get something back! I am sure that having to go and retake some pics is a good enough excuse to go back soon ! Super jealous of everyone going this year.

Just took delivery of my new Cube. Cant wait to hit the Plett trails from next week.

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