Ukraine DownHill Kids 7 year Bukovel 4K I TimaKuleshov 2020
85A couple of weeks ago, Tima had a new hobby, and soon the whole family was hooked on DownHill.
Once we accidentally saw a friend's story in an interesting location with loops, ramps for bike rides - these were the slopes in the Dorogozhichi park, made by cyclists. For the first time, we rode regular MTB bicycles for exploration, and we really liked it. Tim was delighted, speed, jumps, turns !!! Looking at the fact that this discipline was very interesting for small people, I began to study the issue of a suitable bike for this direction in order to make the hobby as comfortable and safe as possible. But, as it turned out, there are no good children's bicycles for Down Hill (DH) in Ukraine and there are no good ones either) Over the hill, the price tag starts from $ 1,700 😞 And it was not possible to bring them even if there was money. Well, my thoughts did not leave me how to solve the problem. Three bicycles were unraveled, assembled into one + the purchase of components gave a very good result, which has no analogues in Ukr, but still yielding to foreign serial bikes.
In total, many hours of disassembly, bulkheading, searching, waiting, and Timka has a small double suspension on 20x wheels with a suspension travel of 80mm in front and 50mm in the rear, despite the carbon steering wheel, seatpost, lightweight connecting rods, it was possible to achieve a weight of 11.900kg, this is not even small but bearable. Most ordinary bicycles for children are of this weight, or even more. Although I still drag it downhill in order to preserve the strength of the small one for descents. In addition to motocross, we have 2-3 training sessions on velchik. Tim was rolling up his new bike and accelerating more and more on the descents. At some point, I also had to get a good big one, as I began to lag behind, and I also like this family leisure more and more, and I also need to develop) Timur began to watch all kinds of DH slopes and similar videos on YouTube, and already "squeaked" jokingly saying that he would also like to go there ... And I would also like to try it with pleasure. Vika wanted to, but was more afraid, since she did not have a lot of experience, so far) Remembering that there are DH tracks in Bukovel, I began to look for information, what and how. Now almost every weekend Timur has cross-country competitions, and it is problematic to get out somewhere. Having looked at the weather forecast, which promised to be perfect, not cold not hot +17, in a quick discussion at the family council, it was decided not to waste time !!! And the next day after the races, we were already on the way. So we drove away five awesome days in Bukovel, not without adventures, which I will tell you about a little later ...
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