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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2018, 10:59:14 PM »
My coworker told me today her soon to be 8 year old can’t ride a bike and still has training wheels. Is this a common thing now? 
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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2018, 11:12:35 PM »
My coworker told me today her soon to be 8 year old can’t ride a bike and still has training wheels. Is this a common thing now?

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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2018, 12:17:34 AM »
if you know if your child can ride a bike, you're a suffocating helicopter parent.
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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2018, 05:55:18 AM »
if you know if your child can ride a bike, you're a suffocating helicopter parent.

I don’t even let him cross major highways on it either poor kid
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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2018, 07:31:46 AM »
This is also the thread for suffocating helicopter parents to provide me pro tips for teaching a pre-shool kid to ride with no training wheels.

he's good on the training wheels bike
he's good on the balance bike

should just be plug and play or nah?

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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2018, 08:38:11 AM »
I am pretty sure you are supposed to run along holding the back and then just let go without telling them.

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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2018, 08:43:04 AM »
I am pretty sure you are supposed to run along holding the back and then just let go without telling them.

Another pro tip from someone no kids: have him learn on some grass so the falls aren't as bad

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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2018, 09:07:50 AM »
i would just run into bushes to stop.  this is the best method and it worked great for me considering years later i would be riding the streets of kc with dennis mccoy


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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2018, 09:21:04 AM »
Try to remember back to how you learned and do that exact thing with the kid
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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2018, 09:22:37 AM »
Try to remember back to how you learned and do that exact thing with the kid

I think when I was about 3 my dad took me to the, top of a long sloping gravel farm driveway and just sort of gave me a push and I coasted down it and then I never used training wheels again. My bike was tiny and blue with white wheels.
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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2018, 04:25:28 PM »
Try to remember back to how you learned and do that exact thing with the kid
Sand road.  No training wheels.  Dad would get me a running start and give me a big shove.  Had some pretty extensive road rash by the time it all clicked.

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Re: Official Bike Thread (if we had another one earlier it's toast)
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2018, 04:51:27 PM »
Let your kid face adversity Steven David, embrace it.
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