Bicycles: big, light, no-frills - where?

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It really is time for ds (8.5, but around size of average 11 yo) to learn to ride a bike. The problem is that all kids his size are already adept & so bikes big enough for him either (i) come with 18 trillion gears & weighing a ton (extra-difficult to manage when you have balance problems to start with) - or (ii) are racing models made of carbon & just not sensible.

So - where should we look for a totally simple, 3-gears-at-most (needn't have any at all, really), light, ordinary, bike?

I was looking into this recently, bink - DS2 is 14 and always wrecks his gears (15-speed or whatever) and I was hoping to find something simple and robust with just 3.

No luck

Mind you I was only looking on the internet, a proper bike shop would probably be better.

Any chance of you getting to Holland? I think you'd find one there!

Or Littlehampton?

£300 though - ouch.

Or Scunthorpe???

This seller looks a possibility - kids' BMX bikes with no gears (well, 1) for about £125?
It gives wheel and frame sizes but I've no idea what size you'd need - if you emailed with DS's inside leg measurement they would probably know.

Or you could just go to your local bike shop

Thank you Wendy - I didn't know about the "Dutch bike" type - but yes, £300 ....

I was also hoping for the sort of thing that's not worth stealing. Maybe a 12th-hand Dutch bike, now where would I find that?

Any more ideas or info very welcome!