Dawes 18" Blowfish Kids Bike, Lime Green

The largest Blowfish, and the bridge between a first bike and a geared junior mountain bike. Still built around the same lightweight aluminium frame and alloy wheels, so it stays easy to handle as the wheels get bigger.

Who it fits

18" wheels, suited to most children around 5 to 7 years old. Age is only a rough guide — send us your child's height and inside leg and we'll confirm. If they're at the top of this range, the Dawes Bullet HT or Paris HT on 20" wheels adds gears and a suspension fork.

What you're getting

• Frame: lightweight aluminium rather than the steel used on most bikes at this size
• Wheels: robust, long-lasting alloy
• Specification: deliberately simple, so there's less to go wrong and less to maintain

Sizes below: the Blowfish 16" and 14".

Why we can price like this

We're an authorised Dawes dealer — but we don't run a shop.

No showroom. No shop floor. No stock sitting in a warehouse depreciating. Your bike is picked and dispatched from the manufacturer's own facility and comes straight to your door.

A traditional bike shop has to cover premises, staff and stockholding before it makes a penny, and that has to come out of the price you pay. We don't carry those costs, so we're not asking you to cover them.

What you don't lose: full manufacturer warranty, because we're an authorised dealer and not a grey importer. A real person to talk sizing through with before you order.