Riding Her Big Girl Bike

From the past week or so our little girl has moved up to the training wheels. She's had lots of power on the three wheeler and it didn't take long to get used to the bigger bike.


I bet Mama that if we made a little effort we might be able to get her off the training wheels before the fall. But if she ever did scrape her knees we'd never hear the end of it!

Look No Training Wheels!

Well Mama kepts BigE's interest up in riding his bike. Sure enough Friday night after two days of practicing with the training wheels BigE had his break through:


Of course we still brake for loud trucks

Biking Update

It seems like a long time ago when Slowly Working on No Training Wheels was published. BigE has largely been off the bike this year. It could be that Mama and I have not been riding that much.

BigE has done some time without training wheels but has lost most of his motivation. That was until the other day when he saw a girl from his class that he has a love hate relationship with.

BigE "She's riding her bike. I bet I'm a better rider then her"

Mama "I don't know, she rides every day"

BigE "Really?"

Bam next day:


Due to a bend in the training wheels he's getting a little practice on balance.

Slowly, slowly working on No Training Wheels

And I mean slowly. After Look Ma No Training Wheels we took a couple of pictures to catch the man himself working with no training wheels. We have stretches where he really gets it.



Then others not so much.


It's been a good start and the original goal was to have BigE riding without training wheels by the fall. But the lack of training wheels has been sapping BigE's desire to go for a ride.

Look Ma No Training Wheels

A monumentous moment happened on Sunday. BigE decided he was willing to try his bike without his training wheels. He friend two doors down had started riding without training wheels. BigE seemed to be concerned that the training wheels were slowing him down. We promised him that if he tried it we could put the training wheels back on.

So far we've done several short trips with Dada attached to the back. Each bike ride is probably longer then 100 meters. He's got the basic hang of it. It's that having to balance the whole time thing that is giving him trouble. In fact his ride back tends to be his best.

He was very happy when we decided to get a kick stand yesterday afternoon. We were our own little Canadian Tire commercial walking in to pick out a kick stand. Which turned out to be huge on his little bike.