Comment by matsemann
The point you're missing is that your kid could have played on a balance bike years before it was old enough to be introduced to the real bike.
The point you're missing is that your kid could have played on a balance bike years before it was old enough to be introduced to the real bike.
Also, there might be plenty of cheap used balance bikes out there. We bought ours for 10-20 bucks, our 2.5 year old used it until she got promoted to real bike with 3.5 or so and had zero issues.
Compare that to me as a kid, where would I had the training wheels nonsense, and it took me waaaay longer to learn how to ride a bike.
I'm slightly surprised this is such a revelation in this thread, around these parts (Berlin, Germany), balance bikes are extremely common and training wheels are seen as a maladaptive thing from yesteryear.