Our little guy, F, aged four and a half, learned to ride a two-wheeler yesterday. Yes! It was so exciting. He's been on a balance/push bike for over a year and yesterday, my husband raised its seat. F was riding his balance bike up and down our block with ease, lifting his feet higher and higher with longer intervals between putting his feet down. P, watching him, thought F could likely ride one of his brother's two wheelers. F was game. It took only a couple of spills (plus, he hasn't quite gotten stopping down) but off he went. It was truly magical!
I have to say thanks to all the bike bloggers out there that talked about bypassing training wheels and just go balance bike to two-wheeler. In this case, it worked perfectly.
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So great to see him taking off like that. Being able to ride your own bike is really an exciting step in life!
Yep - this technique always works. Training wheels are bogus, and dangerous as well. Val
So fun!!! My little one didn't do training wheels either.
YAY!
I love that moment. It's so great and makes me teary. Same with swimming.
I want T to try the riding- but he is too short to reach ground when not pedaling so he is using training wheels. He is so sick of them though... He'll choose balance bike for speed, and pedal bike for the novalty to pedalling...
That's so exciting and the pictures are adorable, especially the last one! Soon he can pedal the bakfiets while you sit in the box ;)
Congrats!! Woo-hoo! Also, is he almost as big as his brothers??! Yow.
We've got L in his seat now and he doesn't hate it, especially if we bribe him with a Wasa cracker. He likes to bang on his safety bar and frequently tries to change gears for me. We rode up to Fort Greene park yesterday to see friends and then headed to Madiba to watch Germany tromp Australia. Very fun.
Yea Finn! Big exciting day. The other thing about training wheels I hate--on a dirt driveway, when you go over a low spot (there are lots of low spots), the training wheels end up on land, while the back tire spins.
"Magical" is such a great way to describe this big event. Congratulations to all of you! Just in time for summer.
I don't have kids yet, but this is great advice for when they're ready to learn.
Balance bikes seem like such an obviously good concept. I remember my struggles to ditch the training wheels- it was really traumatic if I can remember it almost 30 years later!
hmm, my nephew has a birthday coming up-how old is the youngest you would suggest a balance bike?
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