24-Inch Bikes

Action video games are said to improve eye-hand coordination, develop resistance to distraction, and enhance sensitivity to information coming from one’s peripheral vision. These are good traits for your children to have, but playing video games shouldn’t be all they do. Growing children need to develop intellectually, emotionally, socially, and physically.

Physical development means that they should get off the couch, use their muscles, and sweat it out. They can do ball games, gymnastics, aerobics, or they can go swimming, running, and biking.

The advantage of biking is that the bike can be used for transport as well as exercise. The kids can use it to school or when visiting friends. On weekends or holidays, he or she can take longer trips with friends, perhaps even start trying out the hills in the outskirts of town. Better yet, parents and children can all ride their bikes along park trails and beaches, spending quality time together.

Bikes for teenagers normally have 24-inch diameter wheels. Their frames are smaller than the 26-inch bikes intended for adults, which makes them suitable for the average teenager’s height and built. Broadly, they can be grouped into cruiser bikes, road bikes, bmx, and mountain bikes. Bikes for girls have a few variations from those for boys, but they share the same basic features.

Within these general categories are more sub-classifications. Mountain bikes, for instance, can be fully rigid, hard tail, soft tail, or dual or full suspension. There can also be variations in the kind of braking mechanism installed. And then there are the different numbers of gear ratios.

There are also the different brands and models to choose from. Checking them all out could be tedious if not downright confusing. Any parent helping his or her child choose a first bike would have to do a lot of research. If there is a neighboring bike store, it would be well for them to browse there too. This is important because if the child is disappointed with the first bike, he may never want to ride again. On the other hand, if it is something that pleases him no end, he may be encouraged to keep cycling even as he grows older.

24 Inch Bikes is designed to help you and your child make an enlightened choice for a first bike that could conceivably spell whether or not your boy or girl will grow up to be an active, healthy, and sports-minded person, or a couch potato. The different brands and models of all types of bikes are reviewed, along with their photos, in these pages. Go on ahead and take a look. And you and your kid have a happy pedaling.