[Closed] He can ride!

Good stuff!

I bloody loved that moment with my two; similar ages both. Balance bike route? It's ace

Wait for the first face plant:)

Balance bike route? It's ace

A hash of balance bike and scooter. He gets very frustrated very easily which is awkward as he is also very stubborn and determined so he goes on intense 5 minute bursts of trying to succeed before stomping off in a huff.

We've moved house though and the new pad has a patio easily big enough for him to practice on and this has made all the difference.

Can't wait for that time.
My little (soon to be) 2 year old has gotten to the point of loving his balance bike.
He only wants to ride it with daddy on his bike so it just makes me smile all the way round

Great day to do it on!

It's ace when they get it.

Hoppy jr did his 1st bike packing trip with me last night 6 months after learning to ride on his own. I use an extendable do lead to tow him up bigger hills and using that we've done Minotaur trail, quercus at whinlatter and glentress blues.

And the 1st stack is traumatic for everyone involved.

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Kids on bikes ROCK. 8)

Excellent - I am struggling with the smallest Kronos who is a similar age (5 at the end of August). He can ride a balance bike perfectly... well... other than Saturday when he decided to go warp factor 9 and put his feet down to stop! Didn't end so well....

His pedal bike he can do with stabilisers - take them off and he refuses to try. It is infuriating!

Guess they will go back on and he will progress when he is good and ready.

My daughter learned to ride last night! What a great moment.

She's on a isla cnoc 14 large. Daddy don't hold on and off she went and after a few runs seemed to have the start nailed and could grab a handful of brake at random moments, no face plants yet. She had a balance bike at 2 and is was 3 last month.

Balance bike is the route to go - I vaguely remember being on stabilisers for ages.

His pedal bike he can do with stabilisers - take them off and he refuses to try. It is infuriating!

Guess they will go back on and he will progress when he is good and ready.

take the cranks/pedals off and let him use it as a balance bike. its what I did to get my boy used to his pedal bike.

top tip to store for the future 🙂

both mine did balance bikes and I got the proud dad moment when the son first went solo, it was awesome.

daughter (14months younger) was having none of this, the next week at school she borrowed someone else bike and taught hersel to ride properly, little bugger.

parental moment stolen by my own daughter

Awesome! 😀

take the cranks/pedals off and let him use it as a balance bike.

Also doing this with sweajnr. I think going from balance bike to pedal can be frustrating. There is a lot going on. Pedals, brakes etc. So hopefully once he's balanced on his pedal bike and got used to brakes the pedals will be the finishing touch.

My got my son going with a balance bike and then rode his first real one around his 6th birthday - kept him away from stabilisers. Unfortunately I didn't take him out much after that but have made up for it this year and we now do 10k rides every Sunday mostly through woods - accidentally took him down some pretty steep, rooty singletrack yesterday which resulted in his 1st proper crash but he liked it mostly! Got him a 20" wheel mtb with gears to replace his BMX for his 7th birthday next week.

Hmm - I was toying with that idea last night and wondering if it would work!

Right - off to the garage... with tool!!!!

it definitely worked for my boy. moving from a balance bike with no brakes to a pedal bike with two brakes was all a bit much. he was really confident on it and we'd been round trail centre blues already with him scooting.

finally put the pedals back on yesterday after some mini-egg based bribing. he pedalled off first time across the park laughing his head off. success.

For a bit of balance (no pun intended) balance bikes don't always work. My eldest wouldn't use it, and would only ride a pedal bike with stabilisers. She had them on the balance bike (yes, really) and then spent a while getting to grips with pedals and brakes before finally letting me take the stabilisers off.

Youngest took to the balance bike really well, but again wouldn't go on the 12" pedal bike without stabiliers, as dealing with brakes etc and keeping her feet up was a bit much.

Both are fine now.

Pedals now off - decided to leave the cranks in place so that I am not adding so much back on later... keeps the weight and everything much closer to the complete bike. No idea if that is better or worse, but it we will see!

I ended up taking off pedals, chain and chainrings in the end. The freewheel isn't perfect on sweajnr's bike and so as he scooted the cranks would lightly turn which frustrated the timing of the scoots... So zip tied the crank to the chainstay. Then took chainring off just to remove potential pointy things from proximity to a leg.

son is 4 toady. last weekend we did a 7 mile ride through 2 tunnels in Bath. He's quite capable of a 10 mile ride on the flat. God help me when he gets to 10, I'll never bloody keep up!
We started on a balance bike that he was on obsessively, properly flying around a pump track in the local park. He's taken to pedals after about a week of mucking about, mainly to understand pedaling as he's never pedaled anything else before.
Oldest, 6 still can't ride (other than horses) but now says she wants to as other in the village can. I think pedals off and make it like a balance bike is the right approach.