Tips helping getting kids riding without stabilizers

[rojo]

Anyone got any tips, i will be looking to get son and daughter riding without stabilizers soon. As i should have done it by now son 6 daughter 5. any helpful advice??

 

[fatfixie]

Take pedals off, lower saddle if possible so they can touch the ground flat footed and "hobby horse" around. find a slight incline in a grassy park or similar so they can get a bit of momentum.

once they have mastered balance, put pedals back on and introduce into equation.....

Should take an hour tops.

When i was in the "biz" i noticed parents were leaving it later and later to teach their kids!

Still, i had to teach myself when i was ten

Andy

 

[legrandefromage]

tie shoelaces to pedals


that'll learn 'em

 

[rojo]

tie shoelaces to pedals


that'll learn 'em

 

[rojo]

Take pedals off, lower saddle if possible so they can touch the ground flat footed and "hobby horse" around. find a slight incline in a grassy park or similar so they can get a bit of momentum.

once they have mastered balance, put pedals back on and introduce into equation.....

Should take an hour tops.

When i was in the "biz" i noticed parents were leaving it later and later to teach their kids!

Still, i had to teach myself when i was ten

Andy

That is a brilliant idea that wow cool thanks for that

 

[daj]

I am having the same dilema

My other halfs 7 year old cannot ride , Too old to be seen with stablizers and most annoying if he cant do something he wont keep trying until he does :?

will try the approach as suggested

 

[alanf]

bribe them! both mine were offered a cash incentive if they rode their bikes without stabilizers by their grand parents! £50 the youngest sat on her bike and pedalled away quite happy singing we're in the money we're in the money .........

 

[dek1165]

This might sound daft but we bought two wheeled scooters for my 2 daughters. Once they got the hang of gliding along, which didn't take long, put them on their bikes remove the stabilisers and hey presto.

What hacks me off the most though was that it was the wifes idea.

 

[CAS]

More years ago than I want to confess to, I remember my father taking the stabilisers off my fairy cycle and holding my saddle to "keep me balanced" whilst I rode along outside my Grandparents house. With his encouragement I went like the clappers fondly imagining he was still holding me upright. In reality he was standing several hundred yards away watching me go!

Those were the days......I think I was about 5 at the time.

Never looked back!

 

[Grannygrinder]

.

Remove stabilizers, find nice flat surface. Hold on to the back of the saddle to support them initially. Once they are going fast enough that the giroscopic effect holds them up remove your hand, but for christ sake don't tell them you are doing so as it starts them pannicking. When we tried this with my son he had gone about 50m first time on his own, but fell when he looked round and realised I wasn't right next to him :roll:
Took about 30mins to get him confident, he rides out with me now at a leisurely pace