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Hi lads just got my 3 year old an early rider better for Xmas and the pedals are slippy. Can you recommend me some grippy non lethal pedals plz?
Cheers
https://gravitykids.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/pedals-for-kids-options/
Some good leads in there. Basically metal better than plastic as the chances of a scraped shin via pins is lower than blunt force trauma by plastic.
For a 3yo? I’d leave it with non grippy non lethal for the moment. My 5 yo moved to some of the wellgo kc008 pinned alloy ones from aliexpress. Yes they are grippy, but I reckon if he wasn’t such an enthusiastic rider already he’d have been put off by the constant battering the things give him as he spins the cranks smaround to start off.
As grippy as possible is good, so the kid should wear Wellies against the inevitable shin strikes .
kids plastic ones are not much good agree - i put mine pretty young on metal flats with pins kids learn quick (walking/talking/jumps etc) and didn't have any nasty incidents and mrs antigee never spotted my dangerous parenting
Cheers lads. I hit a problem though. I tried to fit a pair of welgo pedals from a hot rock which were a much thinner axle. So out of curiosity I tried a set of pedals that fit normal adults bikes and they were slightly to big. I can only assume that Early Rider make bespoke pedals and tap the crank arms to suit ?
I’ve been at his pedals with the dremmel and they are much grippier now. I also put my elbow pads on his knee/shins just incase. Would still like the option to get different pedals when he gets more confident with peddling but ER don’t list any on there site.
We had exactly the same thing last year with out belter.
Ended up with a set of dmr V6's while learning to pedal, then went back to the little standard pedals as confidence grew as she kept grounding bigger pedals.
V6s… but not yet.
dazzzzbo, doubt they are a bespoke pedal size/thread.
Aren't BMX pedals a different thread to MTB??
Edit: Oh, is it a one piece crankset???
1 peice cranks are 1/2” thread whereas 2 or 3 peice are 9/16”. Almost universally aftermarket pedals will be 9/16” unless otherwise stated.
It’s not a single piece crank as the freehub/freewheel is on the crank not the back wheel. It’s defo not 9/16 if that’s the norm as tried fitting some of my pedals to it. I can screw the pedals off the ER to my bike but realy loose thread. I will contact them next week to see what’s what. Nice little bikes though in proportion with an adult bike not like most kid bikes.
Hmmm...I see the bumpf calls the pedals "bespoke/ custom" so I wonder of I was wrong and they do indeed have an odd thread side??
They defo not 9/16. I think I could tap it out with a 9/16 pedal as it’s very close but don’t want to risk it.
Ceept managed to fit DMR to his sobtgey may have changed them as this one is a few years old.
Good idea by ER to make more dosh lol
Stick some shinpads(sports direct) on the lil' fella and get some grippy ones if your worried on putting him off through injury.
Good idea on the shin pads cheers. I put my 661 elbow pads on his shins when I had him out. Going to ring easy rider and see what pedals are available but do want grippy. The current ones are now pretty grippy as I dremmeled them but not very big.
Yep, ours is 9/16", same as my bikes.
Most kids bikes are 1/2", which is more common on bmx's.
Might be worth emailing early rider, as I think they have just brought out a new pedal design. I've found them very responsive when we have had questions.