Striderbikes.com Website Review

• be a cheerleader, not a coach: praise your child for any amount of time they spend on the strider! • let the child set the pace: some kids are cautious and that's ok! • support the child - not the bike! the child must feel the bike tip ★★★★★ 5 out of 5 stars. this is an awesome bike! we have the original that is about 4 years old now. we got it for our daughter who is now 7, (early) 3rd birthday. as she didn't want anything to do with her 10 inch bike with training wheels (she has a processing disorder and the wobbling and false sense of security scared her). without waiting a minute after as*embly, she hopped on and started walking around with it, saying she loooved her new bike! within 5 months she was riding her 10 in with no training wheels!! and our son who was 18 mo. at the time shared his sisters strider, which was great because the other pre bikes didn't get that small. he road her pedal bike at 2 years 2 mos.!!!!!! now both are awesome racers, our son turned intermediate last week at just 5 :) :) i can't say enough about the quality and value of strider!!!! ps both of our kids still ride their strider and it's still in amazing i have a confession! i have a 4yr old, a 3yr old and i am in the market for yet another ktm strider bike for my 9 month old for his up coming first birthday. yes, that is my confession! i put my kids on these bikes on there first birthdays. i have incredibly tall kids. they learned to push the strider bikes around before they could walk on there own. the strider bikes are like attached to the two older kids. this has prepared them for their dirt bikes that they received on their second birthdays and they have had no problem learning to ride a pedal bike. (we left the training wheels on them because they have to learn to pedal. after that is mastered they come off. the training wheels on the dirt bike are treated the same. as soon as the throttle and break control are leaned the training wheels come off.)