Comment by Tor3

Note that I did say "a bunch of kids". That was essentially all the kids in the neighbourhood. I only mentioned myself's experience elsewhere in my post.

As for the "teacher".. I forgot to mention that: The kids did it all by themselves. One of the older kids, i.e. 7 or 8, would hold the seat and run behind/besides the kid learning to bike. The trick was clearly to stay far enough behind so that the kid learning didn't notice when the "teacher" let go of the seat.