Did you have training wheels on your bike or did you go all out and not use any training wheels. I didn't use training

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6. I used them in the 1970s.

They are now out of fashion, as there are better methods to teach riding the bicycle. They involve splitting their training between a three wheeler and a Balance Bike. The three wheeler is optional but I feel it helps until they are a little bigger as the smallest bikes can be hard for small kids to pedal. The idea of a Balance Bike is that it teaches them to balance first as the standard training wheels cultivate habits that don't align with free biking.

https://www.mffy.com/blog/i-am-a-huge-fan-of-balance-bikes

So why do balance bikes work in teaching a child to learn to ride a bike?
Balance bikes have no pedals. The toddler’s feet are flat on the floor. There is nothing complicated to confuse, so the rider simply starts walking the bike along. Initially, they normally don’t even sit down and shuffle it along. As the bike leans to one side, the rider will naturally bring it back up-right, in order to move forwards. Balance is being taught without even realizing it.

Stabilisers introduce the concept of pedalling first, but this is the quickest and easiest skill to learn. However once removed, we see children falling over to one side immediately, as they have not learned to balance. As the process of riding a balance bike is instinctive, the kids are simply having fun, gaining speed and confidence, without realizing they are learning. The little ones love the feeling of accomplishment, whilst having fun and they feel safe.

As confidence grows they start sitting down and picking up their feet for longer periods of time, and start moving quicker. This whole time, balance is being learned, motor skills and coordination improving and the child is having fun! It also allows you two free hands to push a buggy, carry shopping and get somewhere quicker.