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Little Miss CFH. Third time on her "grown up bike, it's got pedals and brakes and it goes reallyreallyfast".
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Bikes. They're just bloody brilliant!
is that narnia at the far end ?
(I appreciate it's probably an outlying sector of the estate but, really, some of that's terribly overgrown)
Your hedges need a trim on the driveway Flashy. Edit - beaten to it!!
Awesome stuff. My little one maybe 12 months from riding. Excited.
Great pic - real proud dad moment. My lad isn't interested, sadly, but my daughter has just done bike-ability at school and loves it. I'll keep trying.
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Just remember Flashy, skiing helps build the balance for cycling.
It's great when you see them do stuff like that 😀
Our girls love their bikes but the boys have little interest in them. Trying to encourage them to get out more but there's only so much apathy I can take!
Kids on bikes rock.
Science fact.
It'll be alcohol & boyfriends next!
Shouldn't she be in school
Brilliant.
Li'l J gets his "rocket bike" ,his words, on Wednesday.
I have a day off to spend getting him used to the pedals ...:-).
While I'm here...any tips or advice on progression from balance bike to "rocket" bike?
The one bad habit he's developed from the balance bike is using his feet as the brake. He's perfectly capable of using it, He just prefers to ruin his shoes.The l'aal shitehawk. 🙂
The only part of parenting that appeals to me. 🙂
Senor J - advice? Cheap thick shoes - they all seem to do it. Also Isla's website used to have a good section on how to get them going. And Germoline - they will fall off and get grazed, Germoline is pretty good for helping healing.
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Ace:
Reminds me of one of the best days in Cursing towers
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^^^
"These 20" wheels make the trails come alive..."
Just be ready for where this heads over the next 10 years.....
Tomorrow is Bean Barwick School MTB Challenge (in South Lakes).
First did the 25km one with my eldest when he was about 7 or 8 years old on 20" wheels. Done it almost every year since, each time a bit faster. He is now 13, and tomorrow I'm expecting him to rip my legs off on the 40km route 🙂
I like nothing more that riding in the woods with my 4 year old boy. The unfettered joy that he radiates is the best thing ever.
Whenever I go out riding on my own, he is the first at the door on my return asking 'Did you have a nice ride Daddy?' and I always get the guilts.
My lad very proud of his new build and his sister on his old bike now pinked up a bit!!
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Superb pics, everyone!
"unfettered joy" indeed!
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Li'l J gets his "rocket bike" ,his words, on Wednesday.
Our 5yo daughter started shouting rocket bike when I was taking her to nursery on the back of my bike two years ago, and now has an entire make-believe scenario where she rides slowly, flips switches, turns dials, presses buttons, shouts ROCKET BIKE and pedals really fast. As her 7yo brother said in some homework last week, she's "really dramatic".
I'd forgotten about this, just passed the bike on to his sister and it popped into my mind. I think I've posted it before. Small people and bikes is a good thing all round.
My 9 year old surprised me the other night by picking a couple of clever lines to avoid obstacles that her older brother would never try.
Seems the force is strong in the STDaughter club!
Brilliant pics of little ones, so much cuteness! If you're really lucky then they may be riding in adulthood, evidently our family rides to Swinley Forest etc stood my "boy" in good stead. He's now an obsessive roadie, Ride London last year, Tour of Flanders again this year with La Marmotte not far away etc etc.
#ProudMum
Sweet thread, but I must admint I was hoping for Mint content.
Lovely Pic, just been looking at the Islabikes site for young Miss Jay's first balance bike - she's 2 next month 🙂
Those Puky are suitable from 12+ months, they're awesome little machines.
They get protective if you go near them.
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My youngest (nearly 5) has a lovely Pinnacle 16" that she won't go near now I took the stabilisers off, even though she can ride the balance bike fine with her feet up.
CFH maybe yours could have a word with her.
Seems the force is strong in the STDaughter club!
STDs will come soon enough.
Molgrips, mine started on a balance bike, so never had the stabiliser issue. About to get The Boy on the balance bike over coming days.
Picton, rad stylingz!
Took my youngest (10yo) on his first bivvi last week.
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Basically, they would cycle more, if I wasn't so selfish as to want to ride on my own sometimes!
Molgrips, mine started on a balance bike, so never had the stabiliser issue
As I said, she was great on the balance bike - but she still has stabiliser issues.
Well, if we're going to get like that:
jr_bandito#1 a couple of weeks ago. He's now progressed to an Isla Beinn24
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and jr_bandito#2 on the tagalong. He's just this week decided he wants to try out the pedal bike and has been wobbling up and down the driveway
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Ah, sorry, misread that. Not sure what you can do beyond perseverance*, really. If she's got the balance, she'll get it. We started Little Miss CFH on a very slight, false flat downwards path. Easier to get some speed, but not too much.
*Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah!
As I said, she was great on the balance bike - but she still has stabiliser issues.
They all get on at their own rate. Mini-Matt 1 was a demon on the balance bike, then on the day we bought him his proper bike, he got on and pedalled off down the road. I was gobsmacked. Mini-Matt 2 is a much burlier and more physical sprog generally, but he's way more circumspect on the balance bike. No way he's going to be riding sans-stabilisers at the same age.
Our eldest had the stabiliser wobbles but for our daughter and when the bike with pedals arrived the pedals came straight off so it was just a bigger balance bike. Once she was happy with that the pedals went back on and we worked out how to do the pedal thing. Worked a treat!
She did ride around on stabilisers a bit, but due to being used to leaning she got high-sided a couple of times which has put her off. Plus the balance bike was small so she can easily put her feet flat on the floor, and she came to rely on that. So although she can fairly easily touch the floor on the 16 with her toes, she doesn't like having to stretch her toes out.
Our eldest had the stabiliser wobbles but for our daughter and when the bike with pedals arrived the pedals came straight off so it was just a bigger balance bike.
Hmmm. Great Idea. Mini-Matt 2 is too big for the Skuut, but I don't think he's ready for the bike yet. I might get the bike down from the loft and try that. Gives him a chance to try the brakes as well.
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18 month oldout today on her first wood section scoping lines. Note the most important thing endurognar colorway.
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Kids on bikes are great.
Psikk endurowellies.
Slight update, jr_bandito#1 on 24" wheels:
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And a video of the same bit:
Out again with him tonight, can't wait 🙂
Looking a bit of advice.
My boy is just over 3 and very good on his balance bike (the balancing bit anyway). We got him a CNOC14 and have had a couple of goes, which he is enthusiastic about, but we can't convince him to pedal the right way - he'll only pedal backwards! He's never had a trike or anything that needs to be pedalled so maybe that's the problem, any advice?
If it helps my 3 year old daughter does exactly the same. It's really frustrating lol.
I'm guessing patience is the key
I had the day cycling around London with my son
It was only on the brompton, and I did all the cycling, but it was a truly fantastic day out pottering around on cycle paths and quiet streets
Reminded me why I like cycling so much, my son loved it too. He's looking forward to getting out on it again
Being a folder it meant I could use public transport to break the back of the distance too
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He's never had a trike or anything that needs to be pedalled so maybe that's the problem, any advice?
We had the same thing with him up there ^
Sidelined the Cnoc, got a tagalong. Went epic for 6 months while he learned to pedal, then got him back on the Cnoc and away he went.
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another proud dad here, ironically my forum name "Ninky Nonk" is taken from that rather weird kids show In The Night Garden, it's a reference to when I towed my twin daughters around in a Burly trailer.
Fast forward a few years and we're now onto customary pub lunch/ice cream rides...
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Brilliant, brilliant thread. Part of my commute goes through a >1km railway tunnel converted to a cycle path. The other week I was riding through with a cacophony of shrieks and laughter coming from the other end of the tunnel. Then about 30 7 yo kids came past me, some kind of school trip. I was grinning like an idiot for the rest of the journey.
My son unfortunately is not a roadie like his dad, he will find any sand, mud or gravel to struggle through even if there is a perfectly good stretch of tarmac to ride on. Heathen.
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Here's my 6 year old racing last week. He loves it!
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Here's my 6 year old racing last week.
What the hell class of racing is that?!
Ahhh kids on little bikes makes me so broody - but luckily I've got enough already!
And as this seems to be a daughter fest here's mine . . . Who obviously needs to go back on stabilisers if you look at the bike - can't wait till I get some grandchildren to teach how to ride and take on some adventures 🙂
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What the hell class of racing is that?!
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@adjustable you are on a roll, following the bivi post with daughter in the alps obviously smashing it ! As a Dad of 3 girls (27, 25, 22) I'm prepared to wait a bit for grand kids as I'm not ready yet !
@bob your son needs his own STW login and you need to get your priorities right !
Its great to see these threads, I remember how keen my youngest was to get out riding and what a joy it was pink bike and all
@jambalaya that pic is a few years old - alas she is no longer living in the alps but is in the big smoke in the rat race . . . My grandchildren have been put on hold in favour of a career