Mongoose Expo Kick Scooter, BMX-Style Handlebar & Brake Cable Rotor, Wide Foot Deck for Kids Youth Boys Girls Ages 6 and Up, Rear Axle Pegs, 12-Inch Air Tires, and Max. Weight of 175 lbs.

So glad this scooter is an option! We have a 10 year old with some motor skill delays who refuses to practice riding a bike. While he's getting good enough to get around on a razor, obviously the surface types are limited. I love that he can use this scooter to master the basics of two-hand braking (more on this in the "cons"), steering and balance -- all-the-while being on a trick-ready, solidly-built scooter that holds it's own in coolness factor. I know our 12-year old will also love it once she's able to get her hands on it! Assembly was no big deal at all. I was prepared for a fight after reading some of the other reviews, but was pleasantly surprised. Perhaps some points of assembly had been addressed by the manufacturer based on feedback? Interestingly, there were no instructions at all included -- though perhaps there is a link on a website or something if it came to that. However, the photos on the box are great -- even a couple close-ups of how the braking cables attach so they proved all the references you *should* need. As a couple of notes: (1) the handlebar nut as shipped was slightly loose and just needed a half turn to keep the handlebars and front wheel in alignment. (2) pre-loosen the front brake cable at the caliper in order to easily make the connection to the hand lever. Look at how it attaches on the rear brake lever for comparison. (3) I added a zip tie to hold the front brake line close to the front fork. Doing so helped the front brake calipers "open up" on both sides when the brake is released, preventing brake pad rub. You'll see what I mean once you get into it. (4) I opted out of putting on the buddy pegs, they seemed like a ripped up leg waiting to happen. Pros: Packed really well. The box is sturdy and all components are wrapped-up nicely -- had no damage that I've found. Build quality seems strong -- I actually like the weightiness of the steel frame as compared to the aluminum razor. 12-inch, air filled tires will make this a breeze to stay caught up on walks and family bike rides even though our roads are hilly and have a rough asphalt surface. Chews up groomed, unpaved trails and greenways. Wide, sturdy deck. Adjustable handlebars rock. Cool points. Con(s): Not a huge fan of the plastic rims -- I might be tempted to find a steel wheel replacement because I feel like the plastic is significantly hampering the stopping power. Perhaps once the brake pads and wheels get roughed up a little there will be more grip? I would only dock this a half of star though because if you adjust the brakes well, they'll do a good job of at least bleeding off a good amount of speed, but not able to lock the tires into some power skids. In any event, easier to ditch than a bike if things go south fast.

This is a truly great scooter - the best peadal scooter you can buy - by far! Much safer than small wheel scooters that are VERY dangerous to use outdoors. This has pneumatic tires and can be ridden off-road on grass which means it is also great on rough sidewalks. It is also very fast. I am 165 lbs., 5 ft 10 in tall and can ride no problem, it is very sturdy. Kids also love riding it. I don't understand the complaint about hurting ankles, these are rubber caps that come with it to out on the rear axles to protect you, then you just learn quickly how to pedal without striking the scooter. Brakes work well but must be carefully set up or won't work. You need to read instructions and know how to adjust brakes or watch a YouTube video. There is no other scooter in the market in this class anymore. This is the kind they had when I was a child, but even better! I'm a mechanical engineer and I seriously approve of the design. If you have a bike, get one of these too for some variety of exercise and fun! Bought to keep up with my daughter when we took off her training wheels but can still help her over curbs and getting started while on my scooter. Now all the cousins want one too and will get two more for Christmas!

I got this scooter on a whim, to see how it worked. I've ridden electric ones (and bicycle and motorcycles), but never a manual scooter. Now, keep in mind, I'm over six feet tall, and 200 lbs. This little scooter had no problem carrying me! It does what it's supposed to do - you push it, and you can coast for awhile. Going downhill, you can get going plenty fast - wheee!!! Uphill is a great workout for your legs. Now, some caveats. 1. When you assemble this puppy, be sure you take your time, get the tools they advise you to use together, and buy some grease (e.g., lithium car brake grease). Do this before you start, so you don't have to hunt for anything. I spread it out over two nights, took my time, and had zero stress. Total time for me was maybe an hour. 2. The instructions are pretty complete. If you follow them and don't rush, you should be fine. Did I say don't rush? DON'T! 3. Be sure to PAY ATTENTION to the details on the brake cable hookup. This machine has a somewhat complicated "collar" that allows you to swivel the handlebars 180 degrees, and more, for fancy tricks. What that means is that the cables don't physically connect all the way from the hand-grips to the wheels. They go through a swiveling collar. It's a neat engineering trick, but it's also not finely machined. So you'll need to take your time to understand how it works, adjust it, and set it up right - so you can stop safely. 4. Having read horror stories about bicycles and other wheeled beasts shipped out of China, I pumped up the wheels to the full 40 lbs and twirled them after bolting them to the frame. And ... grind, grind, grind. Yes, just as others have noted - the wheel bearings are pretty poor, and worse, there is not nearly enough grease to help them move. So ... you will need to take apart the wheel hubs, front and rear, and SLATHER the grease in there. Put in enough that it literally squeezes out when you screw (don't tighten!) the hub nut back down on the axle. There are no instructions on how to do this. You'll have to Google something like "greasing or lubricating bicycle or scooter wheel bearings". You do this step BEFORE you bolt the wheels onto the scooter - not after, like I did. Basically, you'll need two wrenches, one to hold the nut on one side of the axle, while you unscrew the nut on the other side of the axle. You only need to unscrew one nut on each axle, maybe 1/2" to 1" along the axle - and you can then get to both bearings. Fill each side FULL of grease, then lightly tighten the nut you undid on the axle back to where it was. You don't have to tighten them down. Finger-tight, or just a bit more should be enough. The front axle is just like the rear axle. To find out if you got it right, before you bolt the wheel onto the scooter, see if it spins freely and smoothly all by itself on the axle, without any wobble. If you are afraid to take this on, just bring the wheels to a bike shop, and they can do it for you in 15 minutes or less. The only other cautions I'd offer are that if you are as big as I am, you will have to be particular about where you put your feet. You will only get part of each shoe on the floorboard. It's made for smaller folks. Also, the brakes are OK, but you don't want to depend on them to get you out of trouble. Pretend you are riding a bicycle or motorcycle, and look out well ahead of where you are going, so you don't get surprised into a quick-stop situation. Because you likely won't stop very quickly. The brakes on this scooter are not near as good as most bicycle brakes. So, take your time, be safe, and have fun!!!

This was a great purchase for my son. Obviously, the manufacturer listened to all of the reviews that complained about the scooter arriving scratched or missing parts. Mine arrived packaged like it was bomb proof. It takes a few minutes to get everything unpacked and ready for assembly. It took me about 30 minutes to get it all together and adjusted. I am very mechanically inclined and have a ton of tools so for me this was nothing, but if you are not as confident you may wish to have someone else assemble it for you. Basically, you put on the handle bars, the wheels, and hook up the brakes and adjust them. The wheels take about 30 seconds each. I had one wheel that had the conventional keeper clips on it, and the other wheel came with plastic keeper bushings. The instructions did not reference this but a little studying and intuition told me that the conventional clips were to be used on the front wheel and the plastic keeper bushings fit into recesses in the rear wheel frame mounting surfaces. Remember that. Adjusting bicycle style brakes can be a real pain but these went pretty good. I suggest squeezing the calipers snug to the rim and taking up as much slack as possible with the cable pinch-bolt that is on the caliper itself first, and then using the adjuster screw at the lever for the final adjustment. My son can stop on a dime now. I am almost 300lbs and I took it for a spin around the cul-de-sac and it worked great. This should last a kid or normal sized adult a lot of years. My son is 6 and he is just big enough to use it. I wouldn't suggest it for much younger than that. The handle bars adjust up and down about 4 inches or so. Instructions are pretty good and can talk you through most of the assembly. For the price, you cannot get a better machine on the market. Very pleased.

I would have given 5 stars across the board but I'll explain the 4 stars. Assembly is easy but I've put many bikes together over the years. I gave 4 stars cause of a nut missing for the gyro and the brakes were out of wack. It seams to be very sturdy, I rode around on it and I'm 220 lbs., so for my 60 lbs. daughter it should be just fine. Durability, should also be fine with my daughter except the brake cable that runs on the bottom and through the frame should have had the cable enter and exit up higher on the frame cause my daughter ran the scotter off the edge of the driveway and the cable scraped badly, so I'll have to keep an eye on it.

Others have given excellent tips on assembling these so I'm not wasting your time redoing them. Let me say that if you don't have the tools and you know where your local Harbor Freight is...make a list and head off, Ok, why you need the tools or a trip to the local bike shop, the assemblers think that tighter the H*LL out of things is better, both wheels were so tight they wouldn't spin. Note: they could have found worse bearings but it'd have been hard, or they aren't clean, todays project is to disassemble the hubs and clean them well. Another note, I've worked in a bike shop so have the tools. The steering head was also locked down solid so you'll need slip joint pliers to loosen it, and a large crescent wrench to loosen the lock nut (first). You will need a thin open end wrench for the wheel bearings and at least a crescent wrench for the lock nut, tighten these JUST so there isn't any sideways slop in the wheel, take your time. The brakes are good, they won't lock the wheels so no bad spills. You might want to spritz a bit of Tri-Flow down the cables prior to assemble to keep them nice and lubricated. I LOVE Tri-Flow as a lubricant (no, WD40 isn't a lubricant), even on wheel bearings, or you can use Lithium Grease or....Synthetic motor oil, makes things REALLY slick and lasts a long time. So in-spite of the really BAD assembly I can recommend this product, I feel it's much safer than those little Razors but that's my opinion only. Update, disassembled one of the wheels, cleaned the bearings (they still suck but they suck less) and re-greased with high temp bearing grease and a touch of Mobile One, perfect adjustment then realigned the rim so it ran close to perfect. I'll do the rear wheel next week.....

Once I finished assembling the scooter and getting it ready, it is a truly great scooter for the price. It is a thing of beauty (florescent pink), rock solid, steady and tracks straight. My 7 year old even prefers this one to her electric scooter. I weigh more than its weight limit yet it handles me with the greatest of ease (I needed to break-in the wheels' bearings/cones/races quickly). The price is VERY GOOD for it's looks, construction and selection of materials. It is an excellent scooter and will be very durable. BUT ONLY because I have worked on bicycles and scooters for over 50 years. Now here's the BAD news: It came well packaged in a well padded box. The manufacturer took great care packaging this little beauty. Once I started to put it together, I discovered that who ever assembled this thing at the factory must have been a totally incompetent employee. I needed a great of the Special Bicycle Tools I have to assemble, fix, adjust, modify and re-adjust to make this scooter go to its potential. A person who does not have a great deal of bicycle mechanic experience would have had to pay a pro to put this thing together. It took me several hours of labor to get this scooter functioning properly. So you may want to inquire what your local shop rates are before you buy. Here are some of the issues I encountered: 1) The headset bearings/races were very loose and needed special wrenches to adjust. The lock nut was loose too (safety issue). 2) The wheel bearings were seriously over tightened and the wheels would barely spin. It would have been a miserable experience for a child to get this moving and then it would not stay in motion when gliding. I needed special wrenches to loosen the cones to make it usable. Then after a few hours of use, I adjusted the cones again. Now it rolls like heaven (for the price range that is). 3) The brake calipers were crooked and I needed a special tool to align them with the wheels (it required a special tool to bend them safely). 4) The break pads were all either loose, crooked, and/or rubbed on the tires. The pads felt oily and would not have provided safe braking, so I used 100 grit sand paper to give them some grip for safe braking. The brake pads were a safety issue. 5) The brake cables both were grossly mis-set and they were not tightened to the calipers. One cable was 4 inches too long. Both cable end caps fell off into the shipping box. I had to use a cable cutter, put on new cable end caps, and use a crimper. The rear cable housing was pulled so far forward that it kinked at the adjustment barrel. The brake cables were a safety issue. 6) The brake cable adjustment barrels weren't even screwed in to the calipers! The calipers were not properly tightened to the frame and were mounted crooked. That means the brakes would have been always rubbing on one side of the wheel. It would be like having a partially applied brake at all times. 7) The handlebar stem bolts were partially inserted into their holes for shipping (and safe keeping until later assembly). Two of the bolts were cross threaded and crooked. Thankfully they weren't forced too far into the holes and I managed to get them in straight. If you are a bicycle mechanic enthusiast or pro, by all means, buy this scooter! Otherwise you will NEED to go to a bike shop for assembly and adjustments (repeated adjustments). Nothing says screw you better to your friendly local bike shop owner than buying online and then asking your local shop to fix your problems huh? Bottom line. Heck yeah I would get another one of these scooters. I am strongly considering the adult version of this for myself (for occasional use). If you are not a mechanic and try to assemble this one yourself, it will likely be unsafe and most certainly miserable for a small child get into motion and keep it there. Given the brake rub and over tightened wheel bearings, this scooter would not be fun for a child and likely end up just taking space in your garage. Nothing drives people away from cycling and scooter sports faster than mal-adjusted human powered vehicles. Good luck on your decision!

After reading too many reviews here, I feel like I entered a parallel universe wherein the denizens there are either talking about something completely different OR have never used a crescent wrench. I'm not a 'mechanic' but use basic tools nearly daily. It took about 45mins to put this scooter together along with adjusting the brakes so they work adequately. It would be suicide to think that one could stop in ten feet going down a 30% grade, but for 'normal' use I don't see a problem other than a kid's grip is not that of an adult. I bought this for me, a 70 year old male that weighs 12 stone and is 5' 11'. So far the only quibble (the same as reported by others) is that it was missing two axle keepers, which I will address with Amazon but not having them up front where the geometry (and gravity) is in you favor makes it not that big of a deal. The handlebar adjusts high enough (approx. 3") for me to push comfortably. The foot bed is fine, I don't know why anyone would want it wider unless you were cruising downhill all the time. To address some of the bizarre comments that I read: 1) I'm a welder by trade - there is NOTHING bad about the welds in my sample 2) The tires are NOT nylon but that smelly Chinese rubber that makes you gag when you enter any Harbor Freight store and they have NYLON cords, just like about ever other bike tire. 3) The rims are aluminum, NOT plastic like so many say. Want to find out? Just scratch one withe a pen knife. As a matter of fact, if one is frisky enough, I'm certain that sanding the paint off the outboard sides of the rims would improve braking significantly. An orbital sander would do it probably without having to dismount the tire. 4) There is no requirement to add the silly pegs on the aft axle that seem to destroy everyone's ankle. 5) Perhaps some of the 'bent rim' comments have more to do with bulgy tires than rims, as that is my case while the rim, thus the braking surface, runs true. IMO, any kid that didn't have his head stuck up his iPod would find this thing enjoyable. For me, it is to be used in a place that has no paved roads but lots of boardwalks. After smashing my clavicle to smithereens, riding a bike off of a boardwalk, I consider being closer to the ground a benefit to an old body. This is new to me so's I'll update but I just had to answer to some of the strange things I read from those who are somewhere else in this universe and relayed things that are diametrically opposite to my experience. RIDE ON!

Definitivamente un producto para durar y de buena calidad estoy muy contento con la adquisición y lo disfrutan pequeños y grandes 😅.

Very sturdy. My grandkids love it

La calidad del scooter es muy buena el diseño se ve bastante llamativo y en general se mueve muy fluido en el. A mi hijo le gustó mucho. Y los materiales se ven resistentes ya que en una ocasión lo use y no mostró signos de que se forzará. Las llantas son de aire y ayuda bastante a amortiguar los saltos y los inconvenientes en el camino.

Great buy and looks great

Amazing scooter, been used to its full potential for years and still in excellent condition even though it's been hammered. Took a while to come but well worth the wait