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What is a balance bike?
A balance bike is a two-wheeled pedal-less bike that teaches toddlers as young as 18-months to balance on two wheels. After a brief learning period, toddlers and kids learn to ride, jump and coast on their bikes with no assistance from their parents. Balance bikes are a replacement for tricycles and training wheels as they are designed to be used during the ages that a child would typically ride a tricycle or use training wheels.
With the skills learned from a balance bike, riders as young as 5 years old transition straight to a regular kids bike without the assistance of training wheels. Balance bikes ride like regular bikes and don’t get stuck on uneven surfaces, easily gliding over rocks, dirt, curbs and even jumps. They are sometimes referred to as glider bikes, strider bikes, run bikes or pedal less bikes.
What are the main benefits of a balance bike?
In a nutshell, balance bikes:
• Fit kids much better than tricycles or training wheels
• Move easily and safely over uneven surfaces
• Are light and easy to ride – kids can ride much farther
• Provide years of fun and independent riding before they transition to a pedal bike
• Eliminate the need for training wheels
What’s wrong with tricycle?
Balance bike are much safer and more practical than tricycles and training wheels. With three wheels, tricycles are slow, awkward to maneuver, and easily tip on uneven or angled surfaces. On a balance bike, children are focused on balancing, rather than pedaling. As a result, they are more prepared for an unexpected loss in balance and much less likely to fall.
Toddlers can also walk or run several miles on a balanced bike, but can rarely make it to the end of a block on a tricycle. Tricycles are simply too inefficient for kids to ride long distance, which is why they often come with handles for parents to push.
Is training wheels really that bad?
Training wheels significantly delay a child’s ability and desire to ride a bike. Balance bike teach toddlers and kids how to ride while balanced, whereas training wheels teach how to ride while unbalanced. Bikes with training wheels tilt to one side, creating false sense of balance. In order to ride without training wheels, a child must “unlearn” how to ride unbalanced and learn how to ride while balanced.
On a balance bike, proper balancing techniques are learned from day one. One other thing to consider is that balance bikes are just more fun and much easier to ride than a bike with training wheels.
Where do they put their feet?
Balance bikes do not require a footrest. Kids naturally pick up their feet as they are gliding. In all our years of testing, we have rarely had a child to ask where to put their feet on the bike but a lot of parents ask that question.
How many years do kids ride balance bikes?
Kids generally ride balance bikes for 2 to 3 years, depending on the age they start. The younger they start, the longer they will ride their balance bikes. Most toddlers and kids who master a balance bike move up to a regular bike around their 4th birthday. Purchasing a bike in which the maximum seat height extends at least to inches past a child’s current inseam generally provides sufficient room for growth.
Materials
• Alloy Fork
• Alloy Frame
• Silicone grip
• Ergonomic Saddle
• With 12 inch tyres
• Colours: Red, Black, Pink
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Last Updated @ 5/11/2021 12:07:03 PM
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