Friday, November 9, 2012

Bikes

I have a testimony of Strider bikes.

After loving his balance bike for the last six months, today Caleb took off on his big kid regular bike! He totally caught me by surprise. His big bike really is a lot bigger than his little balance bike, but it didn't take him long to figure out. Emily transitioned to a regular bike with similar ease. Elinor has started riding Emily's old Strider bike around, and I am sure Jacob will one day be enjoying Caleb's.
I love the Strider bikes because they are lightweight (Elinor can handle one easily), the seat and handle bars can go super low (low enough for a barely two-year-old), the tires don't ever go flat, and they teach kids to balance. They are definitely on my list of favorite things ever.

By the way, I finished Watership Down today. I don't think there is a deeper meaning, but it is a really fun adventure story. You just have to get past the weirdness of it being about rabbits. I would give it almost four stars.

1 comment:

shiloh said...

I've been going back and forth on whether to get Andrew a strider bike or regular training wheels bike for Christmas. My only concern was the continuing to build the muscles to pedal (uphill or on grass for instance), but maybe by the time a kid has the balance down, the muscles have naturally developed from growing and getting older so pedaling is not as much of an issue? Hmm. Glad to hear a review from someone I know after reading so many online.