Wanted-road bike for 11 year old boy.
My dear sweet son, who ran to the end of the driveway CRYING last summer on more than one occasion because he wanted to ride a road bike with me :cool: is still hounding us for a road bike. This kid rarely cries about anything!
I figured that the burning desire to have a bike would pass - he'd get an ipod or a sled or something and forget about a bike. Not.
We may be talking about the next Lance Armstrong here, so I figure that I'd better shell out some cashola and get the kiddo a bike. He also is going to graduate from Webelos to Scouts in a week and soon they will begin to work on their cycling merit badge. He would feel like the cats meow :cool: if he had a road bike and all the other kids were on their Huffy's :p ! I will be the merit badge counselor and will be taking the boys on their rides, which will only make his having a road bike like mom (and soon dad) sweeter.
My problem is that I don't want to spend a fortune on a bike for him - that puberty growth spurt is right around the corner. I looked in the paper, online, at thrift stores, and at two bike shops that carry used bikes several times last summer with no luck. Nothing - Nada - Zip.
Does anyone have a nice road bike that they would sell reasonably that would fit a 5'1ish boy? I would be fine with an old bike, but he wouldn't, so something *fairly* new.
Thanks for any help that you can offer. I don't know if my heart can handle another summer of him running to the end of the driveway after me crying!