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Between the time when I was a kid and when my kid learned to ride a bike, they invented a whole new (and much more effective) way of teaching it that involves no training wheels and starting without pedals. It works really well! Progress!

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Lars Doucet

@larsiusprime

Jan 6

Apparently if you want your kids to learn to ride a bike faster, you're supposed to take the pedals off first. My mind will never be the same.

3:33 PM · Jan 7, 2025

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Deva Hazarika

@devahaz

Yeah a bunch of my friends’ kids had “balance bikes” before getting a bike with pedals

If they taught how to ride bikes in public schools, we would have 2 sets of training wheels. One on the back and one on the front.

I was shocked when I taught my daughter in one night using techniques from a YouTube video. It really is better now.

nilgirian𝕏

@nilgirian

They make bikes built that way, Strider Bikes. Apparently little kids race them. I knew a guy who specialized in selling them.

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Absentia

@GuiltyNAbsentia

..How do they ride a bike with no pedals? You just push them?

How do these quality improvements in parent provided services show up in the CPI

Ken

@kendroiddddd

I've seen kids in my hood ride this kind of things. I don't think the idea is that new.

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simeon shepard chadwick

@simcha1972

Balance bikes got my nephews riding pedal bikes- no training wheels -at 3. Definitely a fan.

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Charlie Kirkham

@0_kirkham

I taught myself to ride a bike as a kid by learning on a scooter first. If I fell I could catch myself much better than on a bike, but the balance skills transferred.

Chris Parry

@ChrisParry

I just held the back of her bike upright and walked behind for five minutes, then quietly let go when it was clear they'd figured out balance. Job done.