Originally Posted by
matimeo
Before you buy them new bikes, take the pedals off their current bikes and let them learn to balance on the bike by scooting around with their feet (like those tiny little bikes with no pedals for small children). Training wheels are a terrible way to learn how to ride because all the balancing part never gets learned and it takes hours of you running alongside the bike holding the seat.
My 2 cents coming from someone that has taught five kids to ride a bike.
This is what I did too when my granddaughter outgrew her small size balance bike. I bought her a Guardian in her size and left the pedals off. No coaster brakes (freewheel hub) and an effective handbrake system that the applies rear then front from one lever. She “balanced biked” with it for maybe 3 months before the pedals went on to stay. The other thing about balance biking is she immediately puts her feet down if something goes sideways so she seldom wrecks.