Originally Posted by
bike_boy
Or, I hear some folks have had sucess with this pedal-less bike:
(when considering skipping training wheels to help in moving to a pedal bike)
http://www.mystriderbike.com/
I taught two kids plus an adult relative with a variation of this: I took the pedals off the bike and lowered the seat so they could put their feet flat on the ground, then found a GENTLE hill, just enough to roll, and let them coast down it. When they could go 50 yards or so,we put the pedals on and used them as footrests, then progressed to pedaling. My daughter was riding in 15 minutes at age 4 or 5. My son took a couple of sessions, and a 40-something neighbor who'd never had a bike was riding with her daughter in two or three days.