Holy cow! She’s up and riding on her first try! All it took was a couple weeks of running around on her Skuut. She was doing so well, I took the training wheels off her bike and asked her if she wanted to try. One run up the lane and back and she was able to ride it without me holding on (although, she likes to think I’m holding her at all times). The first time I let go, I ran up in front of her and showed her my hands. HUGE GRIN!!! She can balance like a champ.
Up and riding!
Below is a picture of her Skuut. It’s a wooden bike without any pedals. It taught her to balance on her first day riding. Two weeks later, she was ready to ride her bike…
Kaile on her Skuut with Auntie Rox and Lexie.
I wondered! I have been watching her balance on her Skuut and figuring she’d be ready soon!
Two weeks? Super fast!
Congrats on making the transition to a “big girl bike” so easily.
Nyko Hackett
President
Skuut, LLC.
Wow! Thanks for commenting. She did actually have her Skuut for longer than 2 weeks… When we got it, she was too short to touch the ground, so we put it away… We got her a bike with training wheels, and she rode around on that for a long time. The wheels were really bugging me, and didn’t really let her learn anything about riding the bike… When she got big enough to touch the ground, I got her Skuut back out (I actually drilled some new holes in it, and lowered the seat and the wheels a little more…). She took to it right away. Without the confidence from her Skuut, she probably wouldn’t have let me take away her training wheels. I also made her a foam seat that she thought was more comfortable. If her Skuut was lower, she would have learned much quicker, and we could have put her straight onto her bike without any training wheels at all… She loves her Skuut and actually still likes to ride it when we walk the dogs!