Can you get stabilsers for bikes with bigger wheels I have an 8 year old very tall daughter who needs to learn to ride a bike

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My 8 year old DD is too tall for small wheeled small framed bikes and we have had to buy her the equivalent of a small adult bike. Fine so far but after a couple of tumbles and much huffing, puffing and near hernias for me and her Dad trying to run and hold her up she has lost interest. My 6 yr old DS has been whizzing about happily for ages on his bike (used to be DD's but she outgrew it before mastering it).

Does anyone have any tips to help her overcome her fear, I want her to be able to ride out with the rest of the family and in due course to school with her friends in the future.

I wondered if anyone had been able to get training wheels for larger bikes and if so how costly where they and how successful where they.

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My 8 year old DD is too tall for small wheeled small framed bikes and we have had to buy her the equivalent of a small adult bike. Fine so far, but after a couple of tumbles and much huffing, puffing and near hernias for me and her Dad, trying to run and hold her up, she has lost interest. My 6 yr old DS has been whizzing about happily for ages on his bike (used to be DD's but she outgrew it before mastering it).

Does anyone have any tips to help her overcome her fear? I want her to be able to ride out with the rest of the family and in due course to school with her friends in the future.

I wondered if anyone had been able to get training wheels for larger bikes and if so how costly were they and how successful were they.

My friend strongly recommended a different approach; take the pedals off her bike.

Then she learns on the equivalent of a balance bike, and when she gets the balance sorted, she will find it very easy to get going with pedals back on.

I haven't tried this myself but said friend has 4 children who all learned relatively late on by this method.

Would ordinary ones not do? You can adjust the height on them, we used them for DD on her bigger bike.

you can buy stabalisers in halfords, just fit them to the bike she has.

Bigger stabilers / training wheels do exist, BUT they are expensive and are generally engineered to deal with an adult with balance problems who will be leaning on them.

The idea of taking her pedals( and cranks if possible) off and going through the balance bike phase is at least FREE and worth a try before you shell out for trainer wheels.

I have some stabilisers from DD's earlier bike, but they are designed for small wheels and are too small for large wheels, I might try the "no pedals" approach and see how we get on.

Deffo go for the no pedals approach - much easier than stabilisers IMO.