A longtime favorite for dirt jumping, street shredding, and whatever style you dream up, it's built on a lightweight, super-strong aluminum frame and quick, responsive 26-inch wheels. It’s adjustable for rebound and preload, yet on any setting its high stiffness means that your child gets a tooth-rattling ride and uses only a fraction of the fork’s 100m travel. Make the world your playground with the updated STP 26. The RST Launch RA is a jump-specific fork with 32mm steel stanchions, fixed hydraulic damping and heft. However, the rear triangle is tight and there’s no cross-brace for the short chainstays, so the big tyre almost brushes them – leaving little mud room. The front end gets its stiffness and strength from fat tubes with walls thick enough that they won’t crumple like a drink can when the bike gets stacked. With its quickness, durability and lightweight feel, this reengineered STP gives you more pop to. A longtime favorite for dirt jumping, street shredding, and whatever style you dream up, its built on a lightweight, super-strong aluminum frame and quick, responsive 26-inch wheels. The riding position is shorter and more upright than most young-adult hardtails, while a short seat tube gives good standover clearance and plenty of growing room. Make the world your playground with the updated STP 26. It’s a small-framed adult’s bike rather than a kids’ bike per se, but a dirt jumper has plenty to recommend it to young teens (suggested age is 12 and up). That heft places the Brass firmly in street corner and jump park territory. “Good fun on a dry jump park,” he said, “but not for a wet cross-country course.”
![giant stp 1 bike giant stp 1 bike](https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p4pb13861122/p4pb13861122.jpg)
View MoreDirts member MRTLT mountain bike check GIANT model. Wide bars and a short stem provide power steering, the slack head angle is good for descending and it’s built to land drops.īut your kid will find going up is harder because of the bike’s 35lb heft.įor a young teen, that’s far too heavy and our tester struggled on every climb. View MoreDirt member out the Rate My Ride profile for my GIANT model.