€120 buys the lightest scooter on this page. That is not how price ranges normally work, and the explanation is simple: the Adam Pro is small. Less deck, less bar, less metal, less money.

A short bar is a feature, not a compromise

450mm reads like a limitation on a spec sheet. Put a six year old on it and it becomes the reason to buy. The grips land around the ribs on a child of roughly 115cm to 130cm, which is exactly where a stunt bar should finish. Nearly every scooter sold into this age bracket gets that wrong in the same direction, because a taller bar photographs as more scooter and nobody in a shop measures a child against a deck.

Too tall a bar has specific consequences. Hops get lower because the rider stands upright rather than loading the deck. Bar spins never come round at all, because the bar has to pass the body and it catches the hip instead. Children read that as personal failure.

Pair the short bar with about 3.7kg and you get something a small rider can pick up, tip onto the back wheel, drag over a kerb and eventually throw. Learning to bunny hop on a scooter you cannot lift is slow work.

Longway is a skate shop brand rather than a toy brand, and that is the interesting part at €120. The clamp, the bearings and the grip are specified by people who expect the scooter to go to a park.

The 75kg limit is the real ceiling

Every stunt scooter carries a stated maximum rider weight and most people never read it. Read this one. 75kg is the lowest figure of any scooter on the site, and it is not a lawyer’s number. It is roughly where a narrow deck begins to flex under repeated landings, and flex turns into cracks.

That sets the buying window clearly. Get it at six or seven, expect it to be finished around ten or eleven, and count anything past that as a bonus. Bought with those years in mind it is very good value. Bought as a scooter to see a child through to secondary school, it is a waste of €120.

Who should not buy it

Teenagers, for the weight limit. Anyone over about 135cm, because the bar will be down at their hips and they will ride hunched over it, which is uncomfortable and hard on the wrists.

The narrow deck rules out another group. 11cm is fine for small feet and it helps the scooter flip, but a rider with size 6 feet learning tailwhips wants more platform to land on, and at that width a small wobble becomes a foot off the side. The Chilli Reaper’s wider deck is the natural next step and it is €62 more.

Buy this for a small, keen six to nine year old who is at the park with a parent most weekends and has already worn out something from a toy shop.