Mongoose ShowTime Boy's Bike (16-Inch Wheels)

by Pacific Cycle

Product Features

• Junior sized freestyle frame offers all the strength of bigger bikes
• 5 Spoke MAG wheels are strong and sleek, Fully enclosed chain guard keeps grease in and fingers out
• Quick release seat post for fast growing kids
• Number plate and crossbar pad add visual interest
• Coaster brake for simple, sure stopping, Heavy duty training wheels for stability

Product Description

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Get your child started on the right foot with the Mongoose Showtime 16-inch boy's bike. A fun junior-sized ride, the Showtime is outfitted with such kid-friendly features as a tough freestyle frame, cool blue five-star mag wheels, a fully enclosed chain guard, and a handlebar safety pad. Mongoose also added a quick-release seat post to accommodate fast-growing kids and reinforced training wheels with rubber tires to help get your child up to speed. Other features include a rear coaster brake and a front caliper brake, knobby tires, a decorated saddle, and a curved top tube.

Specifications

• Frame: Junior freestyle
• Derailleur: N/A
• Speeds: 1
• Wheels: Blue 5-star mag wheels
• Wheel size: 16 inches
• Padded saddle: Yes
• Padded handlebar: Yes
• Seat post: Quick release
• Chain guard: Yes
• Front brake: Front caliper
• Rear brake: Coaster
• Training wheels: Yes

About Mongoose
Founded in 1974 in a Southern California garage, Mongoose has always been an innovator. From the company's initial cast-magnesium MotoMag wheels to its current crop of BMX, mountain, and pavement bikes, the Mongoose name has been synonymous with bicycle performance. Mongoose builds specifically for riders, which is why the company's BMX designers aren't wasting time watching reruns on ESPN2. Instead, they're constantly testing their new designs at the park, on the track, and on the hill. This continuous experimentation is what drives Mongoose to cook up things like the Front Porch head tube, which lets you fine-tune the handling on Black Diamond series mountain bikes, or Freedrive suspension technology, which eliminates pedal bob and provides a super-efficient full suspension. Mongoose bikes don't just push the limits; they set new ones.

Product Description

The perfect choice for a first bike, the Mongoose® Showtime 16" boys' bicycle is designed to make kids fall in love with two wheels. It features training wheels and 5-star main wheels. A coaster brake gives kids control, and a rear caliper brake introduces them to hand braking systems. The knobby tires offer plenty of traction, and a curved top tube and pads on the stem help prevent injuries.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 39 x 8 x 18 inches ; 23 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 31.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B002Q8FC1G
• Item model number: R1668
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,879 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away!, September 28, 2010

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Usually Skeptic (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mongoose ShowTime Boy's Bike (16-Inch Wheels) (Sports)

I should have listened to the other reviewers....bacause this baby is heading back to Amazon right now.

The instructions are impossible. Forget about trying to follow the book, because the bike you are putting together is not in the book. Now, my husband used to race mountain bikes, so he was able to go ahead and put it together, until we saw that the fork is bent and there was no way to fit the front wheel assembly into it. Tried to reassemble the wheel, so that it did go in, but with the odd number of washers and nuts included, there was no logical way to do it. Ball bearings fall out of the weird wheel assembly. In other words, you get what you pay for. A big disappointment to my little boy who loved the way the bike looked. We were confirmed in out belief that the best thing to do is to go to your local bike shop or toy store and buy a bike you can test and try.

Also--this bike is super heavy! it would be hard for the kid this size to lift this bike if it falls.
I guess it does deserve a star for good looks, though.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great bike, especially for the price!, June 5, 2011

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Daryl Y "don't google me" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mongoose ShowTime Boy's Bike (16-Inch Wheels) (Sports)

I saw this bike at Toys R Us for 120$, I google goggled it, and found it cheaper online (88$), so I bought it. I saved over 50 bucks, when considering tax and that Toys R Us wanted to charge me if I bought it assembled. (They are all assembled.) I read that some reviewers had a hard time putting it together, but I thought it was pretty easy. I just looked at the picture on the box, put the pieces where they belonged and screwed together. Really, it's not much harder than assembling an IKEA bookshelf. Any person with common sense can put the pieces together. It's all pre-assembled, all you have to do is allign and screw in the front wheel with the handlebar assembly, screw on the pedals and pop the seat in. As far as allignment issues are concerned, (another reviewer stated the wheels were not alligned) I can't see how it can possibly become misalligned unless the assembler bolted the wheel assembly crooked. User error is the reason for the crappy reviews on this otherwise awesome product.

As far as the end user experience is concerned, my son LOVES this thing. We searched everywhere for a bike for my boy's 6th birthday: Target, Toys R Us, Sports Authority, even Walmart... *gag*. This is by far the most awesome looking bike in this price range. The colors are electric, it looks very durable, and everything about this bike says "AWESOME!!!" Yeah, you can probably spend a couple hundred dollars more and get an authentic BMX style bike that you kid will outgrow in the next year, and if you've got the disposable income to do that, great! For everyone else, buy this bike- you will not be dissappointed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Once there... totally enjoyable, May 22, 2011

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B. Joshi - See all my reviews
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I was a bit skeptical based on other reviews regarding building instructions. But my son really wanted it so I decided to order it anyways. And guess what, reviews were correct, instructions to build are almost non-existent. I suppose if you're used to step-by-step instructions with drawings (like IKEA furniture) this will be total disappointment. What I ended up doing was just look at the parts that are available and try to to see how it will work and put to gather myself. Seem to have worked without any issues. As there aren't many parts to attach anyways.

Once I built my bike and glanced through the manual again, even though they don't have picture instructions for each step, they have mentioned about all the complexities of each assembly (verbose and buried in lines of paragraphs). So, if I were to just "learn" how bikes are generally assembled and take an individual approach based on components I had in front of me... that would have worked as well... so who has time for that?

Once bike is ready, its very nice to drive, its built strong. I'm glad I went with this bike as my son is enjoying it very much. I
would definitely recommend it to my friends (since I can walk them through build instructions for this bike). I'm also going to recommend Mongoose to add one sheet just showing drawings on how to assemble this bike... As I mentioned there aren't as many parts so shouldn't be that difficult to put together something quick.