Balance Bike For Kids

Learning to ride a bike is not always an easy task for kids. Some adults aren’t able to ride a bike as they never learned when they were younger. If you’re interested in teaching your child to ride a bike, then you’ve partially come to the right place. This article isn’t about the intricacies of teaching a child how to ride the bike - it’s about how to make your job much easier when it comes time to do so.

The hardest part for a child to ride a bike is keeping the bike balanced. It’s really easy, as you begin riding, to not know how to keep your bike balanced enough to keep it upright. Once you’ve learned how to keep that balance, the rest of bike riding is quite easy - getting over the fright of tipping over, and keeping your bike straight up and down takes a bit of work.

If you buy your child a tricycle, and then follow it up with a bike with training wheels, you’ll be going the standard route - the harder route as well. Your child will come to rely on only those balancing wheels as they ride the tricycle and bike around. They will not be learning to balance the bike. They are learning other important lessons, such as how to push the pedals to get the bike to move. However, that’s generally easy for a child to learn later on.

Instead of going down the standard route above, it would benefit your child greatly to get them a balance bike while they are still young. These bikes are great for your child as it forces them to learn to balance from the start when on the bike. At first, your child will likely keep both feet on the ground, and then move to only one foot, but eventually they’ll be pushing themselves on that bike and pulling both feet off the ground. The longer they have the bike, the better they’ll become at it.

From there, it should be a smoother transition into a standard bike than if they didn’t have the balance bike. You’ll need to teach your child how to push the pedals, but this can also be done in combination with a bike with training wheels as well, if you’d prefer. However, only introduce the training wheel bike after they’re comfortable on the balance bike. Your goal is simply to teach them to push those pedals to get the bike moving. As soon as they’ve mastered that, get the training wheels off the bike.

Balance bikes are quite a bit more common these days, and you should have no problem finding one. You’ve likely seen them if you’ve spent any amount of time with other parents and kids. It’s unfortunate that these little bikes weren’t more popular in the past as they really help learning to ride a bike happen much faster.

Get your kid a balance bike at an early age. Let them ride it around the house if you’re afraid they’ll get hurt. They’ll be riding a real bike in no time.