€5. That is the entire gap between the Base S and this, and shops shift a lot of these because of it. Parents see a full-size deck and a full-size bar for the price of a coffee more and take the bigger one. For a small child it is one of the most expensive five euro decisions on the site.
A taller bar makes tricks harder, not easier
The rule worth memorising: the bar should finish somewhere between the rider’s waist and the bottom of their ribs, with them standing on the deck in shoes. Go higher and two things happen. The rider stands upright instead of crouching over the deck, which flattens every hop they attempt. And bar spins stop working, because the bar has to swing past the body as it comes round, and a bar at chest height catches the hip every single time.
The child then concludes they cannot do it. Nothing is wrong with the child. Erring short costs almost nothing by comparison. Riders grow into a short bar within a season, and plenty of park riders deliberately run bars low because a low bar is easier to throw around.
What €124.95 gets you
Underneath, this is the Base S grown up. The compression system is the thing to care about, because it is the part that develops play on supermarket scooters and never recovers, and Chilli uses the same arrangement here that you find on scooters costing twice as much. That is the whole argument for the Base over something that looks similar in a photograph.
It is not light. Nothing at this price is. Weight is what decides whether a rider learns tailwhips, since the deck has to travel a full circle in the air and arrive back under their feet, and a heavy deck simply will not do it in time. So treat this as a solid platform for hops, manuals, 180s and early grinds rather than the scooter that carries someone into spinning tricks. The Chilli Reaper at €182.95 is where the weight comes off, and the price difference is more or less the cost of that weight.
Who should not buy it
Anyone under about 135cm, whatever their age says. The Base S exists for exactly that rider and costs less. If your child is borderline, stand them on the deck in the shop and look at where the grips land.
Skip it too if the rider already does bar spins and keeps mentioning weight. They have moved past this and they know it.
And if the scooter is mainly for getting to school, this is the wrong category entirely. Stunt scooters have small hard wheels, no fold, no kickstand and no give at all over broken tarmac. That is what makes them good at a park and miserable over two kilometres of Irish footpath.
The right buyer is a nine to fourteen year old of average height or taller, riding a local park a couple of times a week, who will hand this on rather than upgrade if they get properly into it.