Junior 2 graduated to the 2 wheeler today.
Not bad at 3 1/2 - she's obviously got the balance and coordination skills from her mother's side 😆
Good going! Fadda jr is just 4, and I reckon we'll be off the balance bike and pedalling during this summer.
Nice going. Eldest was five, middle six and youngest hasn't quite got confidence yet at 8! Maybe I should stop coming back from rides battered, scraped and covered in mud, might be putting them off.
3.5 here as well. Now a couple of months off 9 and riding follow the dog. Give it a couple of years and it'll be the peaks and afan.
Get the little'un out as much as possible. Its all good.
3 1/2 for my lad too, went straight from a balance bike to his first pedal-powered bike. Loves it and it's great to be able to ride along with him.
My lad was away at 3 year 4 months last summer - I have footage of him on a 1km ride (around a route I run so that's how I know - I'm not that pushy).
Then he had a crash in the autumn and he doesn't want to do pedals at the moment.
So I don't have a straight answer to that question.
Eldest (4) is very close, came on leaps & bounds at the Islabikes open day. Hoping he'll be there in few weeks. He didnt really take to a balance bike though. Have resisted pushing too hard.
Youngest (nearly 3) is blasting about on his Rothan, & I dont think he will struggle when he gets his hands on his brothers Cnoc 14.
3 years 8 months for my youngest I think riding a tag a long helped him get his balance
Son was 4,rode for a bit witout them,then asked for them to be put back on again and stayed on untl he was neary 5!My daughter who is 5 still won
bt always help to push them,if you want them to enjoy cycling later on.
My son is now 7 and is always asking if he can come on a ride with,me.
my mates little'un is 16 months and loves being pushed around on any bike. he likes sitting on the top-tube and being wheeled around the park or on his little like-a-bike around the house. i reckon once his legs are long enough - another few months at this rate - he'll be off.
great fun.
I was chatting with my mum about this the other day (we've got a little'un you see!).
It turns out I was [b]2 years 3 months [/b]when I rode without stabilisers!!!
My son's got a lot to live up to!
DrP
I taught myself when I was about 3. I can remember it well as one of my very earliest memories. We were playing in someone's back garden and I borrowed a bike, went out to the sloping drive at the front and spent 10-20 mins scooting down it with my feet on the floor before riding up the road (Must have been, ohh 50 yards or so!) to show my mum. 🙂 I'd never even tried to ride a bike before......
ours was three at the end of last month. Off the balance bike on her birthday, now able to ride fairly well, but still not setting herself off, needs me to give her a little push.(not a pushy parent...?)
My daughter is 3 (nearly 4) and I can't get her interested in the bike she has a little pedal bike with stabilisers and a balance bike.
Bike with stabilisers she'll pedal along happily while we walk the dog.
Balance bike, she just walk along sat on it. Can't see her on 2 wheels before the age of 5 which is [b]just rubbish!![/b] More pressure I think.
She can on the other hand count to 100, speak a little French, read all her letters upper and lower case, write her name and spell a few easy words. (Cat, Dog, Ball, etc) but this is no use to me! 🙁
Son was on two wheels just before his 4th birthday, my daughter was nearer 5 before she was riding without stabalisers.
I know someone who's kid was nearer 6 but I dont think they spent to much time with them. I guess its part when the kid is ready and part how much time the parents help the kids practice
My eldest was one his 6th birthday (new bike might have helped) but our 2 younger ones were just before 4. Now trying to work out if the smaller one will manage 18 miles (great notts bike ride) having just turned 5 or if its too much, she has done 11 miles without too much problem.
3 1/2 for my son. It was his idea after he saw a 5 year old neighbour ride without assist wheels. I was very doubtful, but he was full of confidence and just took off without any problems.
We got my son a Hotrock for his second birthday,stabilizers of
and riding at 2 years and 10 months.He has just turned five and
rides the blue at Glentress fairly regularly.Pushy Me ❓
Youngest daughter was on two wheels a bit before her 4th birthday, did it herself with a bit of help from her big sister who was just turned four when she managed it.
Strangely enough my son has just got onto two wheels at 4yrs 9months last week, despite having a balance bike from two he just didn't want to do it, probably because of pushy dad wanting him to. He's a subborn little ****er and probably just reacted against my desire to want him to ride. (quicker trips into town etc, rather than waiting for a dawdling wee boy!)
He was up Glentress on Blue Velvet and the skills loop at the weekend there, the inevitable crash was shrugged off quite well!
Not sure balance bikes are necessarily the best route to go down, he hated his and still won't ride it, while the girls went the stabilizers gradually lifted up route which seemed to work for them.
Mine was 2 years 10 months. His Rohan was stolen from the front garden and I bought a Cnoc to replace it and away he went, really surprised me.
He's 5 now and has a Ridgeback mx20 which he can ride for miles, his elder brother is 9 and nowhere near as confident on a bike.
Eldest was 5 but only really became very steady the last few months just after she turned 7. Youngest is 3.5 but can't even grasp pedaling yet.
My oldest was on 2 wheels by the age of 3. I had to take his stabilizers off because he was going round corners to fast and couldn’t lean into them so would fall over. He was riding bits of the red route at Glentress by the age of 5. He has a Santacuz Heckler now I built for him from my spare bits when he turned 10. He's my wee mini me riding buddy!
Age 6 at the top of the spooky woods on his hotrock..
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Age 8 Stinky
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Age 10 on the Heckler at glentress freeride..
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eldest was just under 4 - his bike (ridgeback mx16) was perhaps a wee bit too big, so he could ride and turn but not start or stop (without crashing). Did a 2 mile ride (me running) the other day, v.proud!
My lad aged 4 did last week now wants to come out with me on Sunday but i'm due to ride a century ride 😛
2 years 8 months, my daughter was hurtling round on her Lidl scooter bike. The key thing was to modify it so her feet would reach the ground! (Drop the minimum saddle height by an extra ~ 10cm by re-bolting the rear wheel "swing arm" plates, and hacking out a big lump of wood. - Easy to do on a cheapo wooden bike with a jigsaw).
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At 19 months he's bombing around on a two wheeled (non pedal) toy motorbike thing. He does fall off quite often though!
Daughter rode a likeabike from age 3 and was pedaling just before her 4th birthday. Sone rode a likeabike from 20 months and was pedaling at 2 years 10 months, he rode a couple of 10 milers last summer at 3.25 years.
The wife is getting a new MTB shortly, so hope to do a lot of cycling with the family over the summer.
[b]*Proud parent willy waving moment*[/b]
Mine jumped straight out of the womb and onto a Santa Cruz Bullit, barely waited long enough to cut the cord.
[b]*Proud parent willy waving moment*[/b]