I like to ride my bicycle. I like to ride it well. I ride it to work whenever I can. I think this is a good thing and not one bad thing about it. However, occassionaly I will have someone in a car yell at me. It usually goes something like this:

“Get of the silly road you person”

But occasionally they will say things a little more colorful. But the question remains. Should I instead ride on the sidewalk?


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It looks like my bike learning method is working well (by my, I mean the one I use not the one I created). This weekend my 4.5 year old daughter successfully rode her bike without training wheels. The problem is that riding a bike is not easy, nor is it intuitive. When riding a bike, and you are falling to the left, what do you do? You TURN TO THE LEFT. What? That doesn't make any sense. That is why bikes are difficult, especially for kids.
Here is are my easy to follow steps. (I discuss some of the physics of bike riding that I looked up on the internet here) Read More...

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It appears my training has been successful. My son spent a year using training wheels and could never make the transition to no-training wheels. With the no-pedals method, he spent a week pushing and gliding on the bike. Yesterday I put pedals back on and BOOM - he had no problem riding.

I am not saying training wheels are bad, no wait.. I am.

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One of my kids is behind in his learning to ride a bike. There are a couple of problems. First, the bike is just the right size (it should be way too small to learn on). The second problem is that training wheels don't really do much to help you learn to ride a bike. To assist in his learning process, I modified his bike in the following way:
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