What age did your children read to bike?

[Hther]

i mean without stabilizers?

read to bike? do you mean learn to cycle? in which case she has just learned, about a month before she turned 5. But I have no idea how old most children are - we didn't have the opportunity for her to learn safely before then.

4 1/4. Think that's quite early as he was the first in his class to do so, but he had a balance bike before then so transition was easy.

4.5
We didn't do stabilsers at all, just took the pedals off his bike, and when he had learned to speed along balancing, and to turn, we ut the pedals back on and he was away.

Quite late learning, as he has one leg shorter than the other, and wears a stiff ankle splint which makes pedalling harder. But the 'no stablisers' method made it possible.

oops sorry! Not sure how i managed to write read to bike!

yes, learn to cycle!

1. Like toobusy's ds, he had a balance bike before that so just got on a pedal bike and off he went. DS2 got his balance bike at 2.6 and we'll probably get him a proper bike for his 4th b'day.

4

DD was 6y when she could cycle properly and confidently, able to start and stop hersel, etc.

Howeve she could pedal and keep upright at 5y, but didn't have the confidence or enough opportunity to continue and didn't learn to set off on her own, etc. Then she grew out of her bike - when we replaced it the following summer, she was off.

My niece has just learnt annd she is 4.5y. Friend's DS was a similar age and another friend's DD was just before she turned 5y.

We had a balance bike too - as soon as she had a chance to ride her big bike without her stabilisers she literally took off without a backward glance.

Both my DD & DS were 3, but we too had a balance bike for them from they were about 2. Never bothered with stablisers either.

5

Think she coudl have done it at 4, if we'd made the effort to do it earlier - she only took a couple of times with us holding her to get it. She hadn't had a balance bike but had ridden a 2 wheel scooter for a while which I think helps.

DD2 will have a balance bike - I think it is the way to go.

Literally took off stranded? That's not cycling, that's flying.

Pedant.

4 1/2. She had stabilisiers on for a long time, then we took them off a few months back. She was reluctant to go on until recently when her friend decided to have a go without them too and has never looked back.

I have 4 very young children, eldest is 6 so never really ahd a chance to take them out, they were first given 2 wheeled bikes 2 years ago, eldest still can't pedal but 5 year old can pedal well. I've heard of these balance bikes, sounds like they are as good as i heard they are.

DD2 worried she will be made fun of for having stabilisers but had a go without them for first time today and is very scared and wants them back on

3.5. Went straight from the balance bike to pedal bike without stabilisers, took her about an hour to get it.

Ds2 only just got around to it at the beginning of this summer. He's 6. He could probably have done it earlier, but he just lacked the confidence. He still doesn't ride very often and prefers his scooter, whereas his brother will often get his bike out to ride.

Hther, if you can unscrew the pedals, then they will be able to use them as balance bikes for a while - and it's fun. But not all bikes have pedals you can unscrew. Using the balance bike technique would give your dd2 confidence, as you just put your feet down when you like. They learn to scoot along and balance v quickly indeed.

1. On a very tiny bike. Once stable on the tiny bike, moved up to one that was actually the right size.

Haven't we done this today already?

Mine did it at the same time - DD was 3.5, DS was 4.5. Grass first, took them 10-15 mins to master. Paving took quite a while longer.

Mine is 6 and still not doing it! He really lacks confidence with the whole thing and I think the fact he is so good on his scooter doesn't really encourage him to try.

Just turned 5 due to us being lazy and not spending time to teach him. 2 sessions of 30 mins running alongside holding onto him with one hand seem to do the trick and hey presto, our PFB could ride without stabilisers.

My DS learned to read at 3. He is 9 and still cannot ride a bike. I have a perfect bike in garage he has now grown out of but he has never used it.

3.11 (DS), 4.11 (DD). What really helped was the right size (eg not a tiny toddlers) bike, plus rash gloves which made them confident that when they fell off they wouldn't hurt themselves.

DS was 4.5.

DD is very nearly 5 and ut is only in the last few months that she has been confident to pedal. She says that sometime when she is 5 she will be able to ride with no stabilisers but is happy with them for now. She is also v good on scooter.

I saw a boy on the cycle path reading on his way - dangerous if you aks me