Kids of that age would more-or-less walk while sitting on these. The pedaling comes after balance training (unlike how my generation used tricycles at the same age).
Balance bikes are amazing. My kid rode hers daily to day care and back (half a mile or more). At 3 got a pedal bike with no training wheels. Made some progress day one, next day was literally riding. Has been riding ever since. Never had training wheels.
Balance bikes work on the premise that the hardest part of learning to ride isn't the pedals. It's learning how to balance
Like the other reply said, it is called a Balance Bike.
To add some more context, it is not a scooter because you aren’t supposed to stand up on them but sit like a real bike but you move by pushing with your feet. They are training bikes for toddlers before they have the hand-eye coordination for peddling and you can either graduate to a kids bicycle with training wheels or some kids just go straight to the bicycle without the training wheels.
The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicle that, being the first means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler principle, is regarded as the forerunner of the bicycle.
Any one messes with that bike should lose a finger. That is a treasure that builds urban community.
Yo, someone stole your pedals
Kids of that age would more-or-less walk while sitting on these. The pedaling comes after balance training (unlike how my generation used tricycles at the same age).
Think of it like an open wheel version of the cozy coupe
It's a real shame people can't learn to drive properly with them, like riding a bike properly on a push bike.
Yes, it's called a balance bike and they're pretty cool. They prepare children for "real" bikes and also help them walk more without getting tired.
Can confirm, works great.
Balance bikes are amazing. My kid rode hers daily to day care and back (half a mile or more). At 3 got a pedal bike with no training wheels. Made some progress day one, next day was literally riding. Has been riding ever since. Never had training wheels.
Balance bikes work on the premise that the hardest part of learning to ride isn't the pedals. It's learning how to balance
That's not a bike?
Bicycles are called bikes in the US and some other countries.
I assume you come from one of the countries where motorcycles are called bikes?
Bike is short for bicycle. Motorcycles aren't bikes. Obviously the short form of motorcycle is mike.
Bike is short for Bichael
While everything you said is correct, it still has no pedals. I thought we (USA) called these scooters.
It's a balance bike. I think of scooters as not having a seat.
I completely agree. Unless of course you’re talking about a Vespa… 🫠
Like the other reply said, it is called a Balance Bike.
To add some more context, it is not a scooter because you aren’t supposed to stand up on them but sit like a real bike but you move by pushing with your feet. They are training bikes for toddlers before they have the hand-eye coordination for peddling and you can either graduate to a kids bicycle with training wheels or some kids just go straight to the bicycle without the training wheels.
I thought bikes have pedals, we would call that a scooter
This is a bike 🥄
That's not a bike, that's a spoon.
Alright, alright, you win.
Heh, I see you've played bikey spoony before!
indeed.
Freiherr Carl von Swag
MFW dandy horse
It's not a motorbike, not a bicycle, but it can be a bike. It has 2 wheels.
It goes through the frame, so probably not. If anything it's an overkill for a bike like that.
Ahhhhh I see the detail I was missing now, thank you.