Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to the channel in this little video I wanted to tell you about my experience with boom bikes and just toddler bikes in general My daughter turned four pretty recently so we upgraded her to this boom three But when we first when she first started riding I want to say she was around two years old Maybe even younger. We got her this Amazon.com Amazon.com bike. That's all we got it from all steel What do they call it? Balance bikes. I had no pedals and it was heavy and kind of cheap It was not kind of it was cheaply made it was pretty rough But it did the job and she actually loved it. That's where she learned to you know balance bikes She never had training wheels. We went that route no training wheel route And I think that's for the best I did question that a couple times During the the process But now that she's riding really good. I'm I definitely lean towards no training wheel route Anyway with the balance bike she did get good at that pretty quickly She liked it. We set the seat all the way low She liked it. We would ride all around the block and stuff and she got pretty good and pretty fast on that balance bike When she turned three right around her third birthday. We went ahead and got her the boom two And had the boom two has the pedals there is a boom one Never had that one, but it has no pedals if you go with the one We went we went when I hadn't started the boom two and these are pretty expensive the thing is is like I don't know how much. She's our new Probably I'm just gonna throw an over out three hundred Twenty to four hundred dollars depending on what options you get and stuff like that But we bought this one used and paid two hundred and ninety four which I think is kind of crazy for a little little kid bike But I had a plan behind it and I think the plan is gonna work out But the plan was to buy the bike for two ninety used so I'm not Having to pay you know take that hit right when you buy a new thing like you buy a new bike for four hundred bucks Let's say and then you know it's used so it's worth three hundred so we bought it used You know gently used it was in great condition. It still is in great condition and Yeah, she actually really liked it, but the only problem is she wasn't ready yet three years old to go with the pedals So what we did is we took the pedals off and she used it again as a balance bike almost all through her three her third year and She loved it she right we actually used this bike quite a bit So we spent two ninety our idea was that when she was ready to upgrade we would just sell it for hopefully similar price that we bought it And then just spend just a little more for the next level and you know kind of go like that so you buy it once But you just get your money back when you go to sell that was kind of idea rather than buying a seventy or a hundred dollar cheap bike And then it being worth basically nothing in fact just a couple weeks ago. I picked up these three Little girl bikes off the garbage somebody was throwing away and I forget the brand like coffee or something like that They were probably seventy bucks new or something and now they're worth nothing they're on the garbage pile I cleaned them up. I spent about 30 minutes just cleaning them with soap and water Pumping the tires up. I was only able to resell those for 25 bucks for the three I sold two of them for $10 and one of them for 15 or something like that So I mean those cheap children's bikes basically worth almost nothing After they're kind of used well used and they just don't hold up as well Where's this one? We're the second owner I believe and it's still in great great shape and it's actually a good quality I'll bring in on some of the close-ups in a minute But yeah, I mean this it's all aluminum frame first of all it's including aluminum fork aluminum handlebars I believe alloy wheels You know, it's actually high quality. It's like what you expect on an an adult bike for you know 700 to a thousand dollar range perhaps And it's also the cool thing about it unlike some of the like some of the Children's bikes like they actually Do a really good job of trying to think about the kids that are actually right and so it has like small brake levers that have a adjustable position Smaller crank arms. I think these are I don't know they're very small they get slightly bigger at the next level So it's actually a very good quality bike this thing stops has really large brake pads front and back So it's just it's just a nice nice bike single speed at this this stage And I know there's other brands we just went with the VOOM because it's very popular This bike was built in Cambodia, but it's an Austrian brand designed in Austria Assembled in the US it even says at least this one says assembled by Paul or maybe not simple quality control by Paul made in Cambodia designed with love in Austria What's it say Not kangaroos Mozart so a little bit of comedy in there the brand seems pretty cool and I I've contacted a couple times for different things like we needed to adjust the Headset in this tighten it up a bit. So I actually did buy for like ten bucks the special tool to adjust this headset and They they're just a cool company and they make a great great bike. So anyway back to my story At around almost age four she started saying I want to Use my pedals Unfortunately, by that time we lost her pedals I ended up ordering a new set from them. I don't remember the price. So it's say 15 bucks So I wanted the you know like original pedals which actually are these I'll tell you about that in a minute and Pretty quickly she learned to pedal and she was riding this thing super well Like really well doing tricks even putting her feet up on the top tube just I mean really It's been really fun watching her learn to ride a bike properly But that was when she was getting close to age of four and she's a pretty tall girl And she was already out growing it. We were getting the seat pretty high and she just looked large on the bike and other thing is Is she was go she wanted to go faster and this is a single speed and it's kind of geared kind of low I would say So she was running out of gear. She was you know pedaling like crazy Just to ride at a certain speed so so then we decided again to look used and I found a great deal on this one This is the next level up. It's a VOOM 3 and I say VOOM because it's Austria And so it's German speaking and the W has on word of a sound so it's a VOOM I think that's the right pronunciation not WOOM So it's a VOOM 3 and this one I got a great deal on though We paid 220 bucks. I didn't even ask the lady to lower the price any bought this one just about a week ago I had to drive about an hour further than a you know what about an hour total actually from our house But that's a great deal. She her Sister had bought it new and her niece never wrote it like ever. I mean, it's basically a brand new bike had tires or flat and oddly the chain was off in the back wheel was loose So I'm not sure what was going on there, but I simply you know tightened it down I think maybe they never never even got it assembled completely. I went through the whole thing everything else was fine and My daughter loves riding this bike. She's only wrote it a few times She picked up on that just right away and she's riding great on this and it fits her really nicely So now we're gonna get ready to sell this one. I pay $2.94. I'm gonna post it for $2.90 Maybe I won't quite get that much, but you know, we'll see where we go and that'll pay for that one So you know, it's I think it's the way to go to so If you pay them out up front But as long as you don't mind buying and selling especially used then you can just kind of stay on that same money For several years probably we'll see and Meanwhile your your child has high quality bike rather than a junker bike that you nearly have to throw away after they're done so So far we're really happy with our kind of upper-end kids bike journey The one thing I did do it to this new one though is well the basket that was on the old one I took the basket from the old one putting on new ones is just some $10 Amazon thing, but actually she loves it She actually uses it to put in Books in it and for her stuffed animals and stuff like that the other thing is oh, I mentioned that we replaced the Pedals on this one they were I barely upgraded pedals or something because they're like the wider These are kind of the wider Pedals get the little bit more and I actually think I know that she does better with these and then these these sometimes her foot was kind of But I mean she can ride it, but this one that these are better pedals I swapped the pedals and also I think this was an upgraded kickstand they had on this one as well So I swapped the kickstand has this back type of kickstand that way the pedal can Can move freely when they're moving the bike around they don't have to deal with that words over here We have this more standard one But this one's still a great bike. It rides absolutely perfectly as just a couple tiny scratches It's actually an excellent condition It you know can have many many more years of use All I wanted to say about this video is basically that you know if you have the means to do it I would recommend buying a quality bike like the boom or there's probably some other brands. We just kind of Found this one and just really liked it right away, but there's other brands too. I'm sure that are kind of similar But yeah, I would recommend going that route that way your kid gets a high quality bike You actually may end up spending less in the long run I'm not really sure about that But you probably won't be spending anymore because you can resell rather than basically throw away or almost give away Yeah, they're good bikes and that's been our experience. So Well, anyway, that's about all I wanted to say about it How have you guys done it if you have any little kids or did in the past or Duke now What kind of bikes do you guys like or what experience did you have either buying the lower end ones middle or upper end bicycles? I'd love to hear it and thanks everybody for watching. See you next time. Bye