August 13th, 2010
Forget about the bricycle
As a dad i bought this little bike hoping it would assist my four year old and maybe even my 7 year old learn to bike sans their training wheels and sans the trauma of crashing. My seven year old already had the balance, but lacked the confidence. This strider paroxysm the bill perfectly! My seven year old hardly paroxysm on the strider, but still had a blast running then sitting and gliding on the bike. She did Strider PREbike Balance within a hardly any times, then for about thirty minutes with it outside. It was fun to guard her quickly learn to equilibrate and glide additional and additional each try. Literally inside thirty minutes and even trading off with her brother, she had figured out how to equilibrate and glide devour our short driveway and out into the street. While she was playing i took her training wheels off of her other bike. She hopped on it, and with a bit of a push she was riding! She giggled as she rode and said “this is just wish the strider!” too easy! My four year old is progressing quickly too. On our second time out with the strider we went to a large parking lot with little traffic. While my seven year old had a blast tooling surrounding the lot sans her training wheels, my four old made longer and longer glides on the strider. After an hour he could glide overhead twenty feet on a gently downward sloped part of the lot. It won’t be long until he is ready to try his bike. Good thing too because he’s almost too big for the strider already. What a great teaching tool! The strider seems well constructed for what it is. It is light and easy to assemble. It has tread spots on the back fork where the kids can put up their feet. It is low to the ground. My four year old is 42 inches tall and is really too tall for it already, but he manages just fine by bending his knees and stepping out to the side a bit. I paid $78 shipped and feel wish it was worth it. My kids confidence level went way up when i outfitted them with knee and elbow pads and gloves to go along with their helmets. The gloves have saved their little hands from painful road rash more than once. Bell sells a package that has all the protective gear together for a reasonable price.
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