Originally Posted by
sofakng
Hmmm, that's not too bad. How much lighter is the Hot Rock 16 versus the Trek Jet 16?
I don't know about the current versions, but when my daughter had hers a couple of years ago, the 16" Specialized was a little under 20 lbs and the 16" Trek Mystic was about 23 lbs. That doesn't seem like much of a difference in the context of an adult bike, but at the time my daughter weighed about 35 pounds, so it was a substantially proportion of her body weight. The Jet/Mystic also has very high riser bars, which raise the center of gravity of the bike; combined with a pretty cramped cockpit area, that made it harder to handle.