Cycling helps children develop cerebellar function, improve physical coordination, exercise lung capacity and improve exercise endurance. So what should a bike for kids look like? Recently I received a 16-inch detachable auxiliary wheel series baby carriage Athletes No.6 from the German professional stroller brand CUBHO.
Professionalism comes from experience, beauty comes from design. The CUBHO brand focuses on infant sports technology, the geometry and angle design of the frame are specially optimized for children, and the product positioning of Athletes No.6 is for children aged 4-7, in line with the height and physical characteristics of this age.
The body of the frame is made of aluminum alloy, with smooth lines and beautiful shape, stable fish scale welding joints, excellent strength, and passed
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of mandatory safety product standards. Its one-piece curved main beam, supplemented by a small beam handle with a reinforced design, is convenient for parents to carry the car with one hand. In fact, the paint water of the car is also very beautiful, the thickness is enough, and it can avoid a lot of small scratches while being durable.
The stroller is not an ordinary tool bicycle, it is a good guy who accompanies the child’s growth, but it cannot hurt the child. The Athletes No.6 is designed with a fully wrapped chain box on the drivetrain and chamfered on the edges, so that the chain and chainrings will hardly be touched in daily use.
The headbar does not use cheap toothed specifications, but designs an integrated riser similar to the BMX stem, and it is a toothless design, which greatly facilitates user adjustment. Fully hidden screws and rounded front, all to avoid accidental body scratches.
The horizontal is equipped with a swallow handle, and its lifting and sweeping angle is completely the standard mountain bike swallow handle design, which is quite easy to handle. 28.6 standard upper tube and 25.4 horizontal diameter, universal various standard accessories, convenient for users to modify.
Optimized for children is also thoughtful ergonomics. Children’s legs are short, knee tension is not large, must use a short crank to adapt, so CUBHO specially customized an ultra-short crank with a length of only 115mm to adapt, to avoid children riding the leg swing too large resulting in unbalanced and unscientific movement.
The brake bar is also a short Reach style specially designed for children with small hands, and the right lever curvature is shortened, so that every child can reach the brakes and develop good riding habits instead of using the foot brake.
The handle design is more ingenious, and the multi-section mushroom head gauntlet can protect the hands of the little rider from the side and prevent crash damage.
The cushion is a small style for children, with a narrow sports design that effectively supports the child’s sitting bones; In addition to reducing the area, the pedals also use rounded anti-cleats to prevent slip and effectively reduce the chance of scratches.
On the braking system, CUBHO uses a front V brake + rear drum brake scheme. The drum brake is quite reasonable in the maintenance-free and convenient design, and the linear braking force can prevent the rear wheel from locking and causing accidents. The front V brake provides maximum braking force to ensure the braking performance of the whole vehicle.
The most critical tire in stability components, CUBHO is directly equipped with the most comfortable “balloon tire”, a 16×1.95 tire produced by CST Zhengxin Tires. The non-slip drainage pattern covers the tread from the middle to the sides, providing good grip even when bent, while the semi-bald head design in the middle has low rolling resistance, which is ideal for stroller use.
As always, the vehicle features CUBHO’s signature integrated wireless LED headlights and horns, as well as integrated cushion LED taillights, all of which are rechargeable with built-in batteries. The headlights and horn can be controlled via a 2.4G remote control, and the electric horn has 4 bionic animal sounds, which are very attractive to children.
The whole vehicle is 90% installed and debugged at the factory, and the user only needs to install the handlebars and pedals to ride. CUBHO thoughtfully comes with a full set of installation tools and detailed instructions. In addition to tools, small safety accessories such as reflectors, wheel axle screw covers, and mechanical bells are also equipped.
As an entry-level standard stroller, it definitely comes with auxiliary wheels for learning to ride.
This pair of auxiliary wheels is a good part designed by the manufacturer, the main body is made of reinforced engineering plastics, in addition to the reinforcement, the seal is embedded as the shaft, and the screws are also reinforced with pre-resistant falling rubber. The ground floor is made of seamlessly bonded rubber material, which is both noise-reducing and durable, and is not afraid of coming out. As for the support rod, it is designed with electrophoresis I-beam reinforcement, which is safe and reliable and has a long life.
Installation can be said to be very simple, just use the built-in No. 15 wrench to unscrew the large nut of the rear wheel axle, snap the auxiliary wheel on the baffle, and adjust the auxiliary wheel up and down according to the proficiency of the young rider, and finally tighten the large nut to complete.
Since the rear axle is independently locked by different nuts, removing the large nut of the auxiliary wheel will not cause the rear wheel to come loose.
The dull wrench is also a one-step tool, and the degree of adaptation is stronger than that of the general family’s own universal wrench, and the use of inappropriate tools may lead to installation risks.
The details of the whole car are also in place, such as the central axle is accompanied by a waterproof sleeve, the wiring is accompanied by an integrated hook, which is a perfection to enhance the goodwill of the product, and even small accessories such as chains are used with high-quality products from the big factory KMC. The seat tube clamp belongs to the standard 31.8 caliber, the seat tube is the common 27.2 caliber, and can be upgraded with commercially available standard products if necessary.
Usage experience
The author delivered three children from three families to try out, one of whom was a 6-year-old who could ride a bicycle, and the other two were 5-year-old children who were riding for the first time. Parents unanimously recognized CUBHO’s excellent product workmanship, and the little riders were designed with unique remote control lights and horns, and the children learned the road etiquette of giving way to pedestrians honking their horns with a little guidance.
In the actual riding experience, the two children who rode for the first time spent about 2 hours, and they were already familiar with the methods of pedaling steering and braking, and the stability was very good under the control of the auxiliary wheels. After about a week of use, parents have dismantled unilateral or bilateral auxiliary wheels with confidence, and have learned to ride since then; As for the child who can ride, he has become the coolest child in the community. Since the whole vehicle weighs only 8.2kg without auxiliary wheels and uses a swallow handle, this little handsome guy can actually jump the road.
If you want to develop your child’s love of cycling and increase their passion for scientific sports, a special and professional stroller designed for children is a must. Children’s childhood should be innocent, birds singing, the popularity of electronic products, restraining their joy, should liberate children from the IT field, go out and move more, contact the outside world more, restore a purest childhood.