Designed in partnership with six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy, the HOY range promises to offer the lightest kids bikes in the UK for riders aged between four and sixteen years old
The Bonaly, an area of area of the Pentland Hills where Sir Chris Hoy first rode his mountain bike, has been carried forward from the existing Evans Cycles HOY range.
The model now comes in 16, 20, 24 and 26 inch wheel sizes and offers a completely redesigned lightweight frame and child friendly components.
The Meadowmill is designed to be a go anywhere adventure bike.
The Meadowmill is named after the cyclo-cross circuit that Sir Chris Hoy raced on early in his career, and is aimed at young riders who are looking to ride on a multitude of terrains, with drop down handlebars and lightweight aluminium frame.
Bikes come with smaller Q factor and short cranks.
The range now comes with child-friendly components and new Q factor crankset, which Evan Cycles says has been designed to ensure smaller riders’ legs are closer together and pedalling is efficient and smooth.
The crankset lengths have also been designed to limit any overstretch of legs, as well as ensuring pedals don’t clip the floor when cornering.
Handlebar widths match children's shoulder widths and have shorter leaver reach.
Handlebar widths have been tailored to match different shoulder widths of children, which should help with bike control, in addition to the new lightweight frame and finishing kit, low spoke wheels and super light foam padding for saddles all help to reduce weight and improve comfort whilst on the bike.
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The bikes are available now from evanscycles.com and start at £260 for the Bonaly and £280 for the Meadowmill.
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Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.
Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.
For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas.
She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.
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