Griffin has had a bike with training wheels for some time now, but we haven't been riding it too much. He has preferred to ride his big wheel and I haven't pushed him too much.
A couple of weeks ago, we bought a bike at a garage sale for $5 and I removed the pedals, modified the seat and made a glide bike out of it. A glide (or balance) bike doesn't have pedals and is intended to teach the kids to balance on a two wheel bike before introducing pedaling, etc. Their feet stay close to the ground, so they can scoot themselves along and if they need a correction (falling over, etc) they just push off with their foot and don't crash. Griffin picked it up in a couple of minutes.
Yesterday, we decided to take the kids for a walk and I asked Griffin if he'd like me to take the training wheel off his bike so he could ride it on our walk. He nervously said yes. Here are the results:
Very first attempt without training wheels:
I'm a believer in the glide bike!
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