That's always been something I've thought about after years and years of selling reapers to parents. Typically we recommended, within reason, bar, stem, stack height, and other adjustments.
Edit 2: You can also, theoretically, run a steeper ride-9 than the comparable 24 inch bike for the same or similar rollover when you swap to the larger wheel. Steeper Ride-X always adds reach; it also adds ESTA which makes it feel roughly the same as before in my adult experience. Recall that for years companies that offered 29 and 27.5 bikes of the same model side by side did little geometry adjustments between the wheel sizes like making the 27.5 bike somewhere between .5 to 1 degree slacker. That practice seems to have largely fallen by the wayside so YMMV.
We also found that many parents were disappointed in the cost of an entire second wheelset if one could not be found used. Traditionally these full suspension kids bikes have held their value better than a comparable adult bike and a number of our customers chose to sell the 24 inch as a complete and simply purchase the 26 version (or a different bike; we were able to get a bunch of kids to jump from 24 directly to the 27.5 reaper, fluid 27.5 or Sight Youth) when considering the price of a wheelset and tires.
Edit: Your kid looks like a total boss in the cover photo, by the way.
Sept. 3, 2024, 9:50 a.m. - Jotegir
That's always been something I've thought about after years and years of selling reapers to parents. Typically we recommended, within reason, bar, stem, stack height, and other adjustments. Edit 2: You can also, theoretically, run a steeper ride-9 than the comparable 24 inch bike for the same or similar rollover when you swap to the larger wheel. Steeper Ride-X always adds reach; it also adds ESTA which makes it feel roughly the same as before in my adult experience. Recall that for years companies that offered 29 and 27.5 bikes of the same model side by side did little geometry adjustments between the wheel sizes like making the 27.5 bike somewhere between .5 to 1 degree slacker. That practice seems to have largely fallen by the wayside so YMMV. We also found that many parents were disappointed in the cost of an entire second wheelset if one could not be found used. Traditionally these full suspension kids bikes have held their value better than a comparable adult bike and a number of our customers chose to sell the 24 inch as a complete and simply purchase the 26 version (or a different bike; we were able to get a bunch of kids to jump from 24 directly to the 27.5 reaper, fluid 27.5 or Sight Youth) when considering the price of a wheelset and tires. Edit: Your kid looks like a total boss in the cover photo, by the way.