Bikes

Looking for a first bike for your child? The Puky LR1 Learner Bike makes an excellent choice. Available in 3 beautifully eye catching colours, Ocean Blue, Pink and Red this bike is guaranteed to be a hit! There is no better way to get a child started with riding bikes! Learner bikes, also known as runner bikes, training bikes, balance bikes or walker bikes and don’t have pedals. This makes them very easy to ride, and an instant hit with younger children. Learner bikes are particularly good for toddlers, who might find a standard pedal bike too tricky. But balance bikes are fun for all young children, boys and girls alike, and many of the larger steel balance bikes available can be happily used by children up to 5 or 6 years old.
Children don’t tend to “learn” how to ride a balance bike. They seem to know instinctively what to do – sit and push with their feet. A balance bike is something that can be enjoyed instantly – there’s no time needed to learn to how to ride. The bikes are powered by the rider’s feet pushing off the floor, half running, half sitting, speeding the bike along.
When using a learner bike, children can learn so much about balance and about bike riding overall, very quickly indeed. And in a few years, when they are ready for a pedal bike, their learner bike experience will really help them take to it without any problem at all quite often without the need for stabilisers. They aren’t called learner bikes for nothing!
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