Zion EBB frame for The Boy

Too old

DiRt DeViL said:

How old is your boy?

Mine is 9 and told me that when he gets his new geared full susser next year he wants to convert to SS his current ride, his comment took me by surprise.

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He is thirteen.
He has had:
12" wheeled Walmart bike @ 3 yrs
20" wheeled Spec Hardrock @4.5 yrs
13"(frame) Schwinn Homegrown @ 8 yrs
15"(frame) Supergo Access @ 13 yrs (it was my really my old messenger frame) which I converted to SS for him about a month ago
17"(frame) Zion EBB

I figure he is in the "make it or break it" phase. He doesn't have quite the same love I do for cycling and the related pains, but I don't want the bike to ever be an excuse. If he doesn't really take to cycling in his late teens then I guess it was never meant to happen. He likes bikes as much as any other kid, I guess. When I was his age I was trying to do 100 laps around the loop in my front yard (an unfathomable goal back then to all the local youths).
I had fantasized about putting The Boy on a full sussy, but I realized I wanted him to gain some skills first. I have ridden with quite a few grown-ups who have never ridden anything but FS and I can see it in their skill level. That said, I am not pushing him to ride full rigid. I do have some mercy on him.