My son is 4. We just got this little machine on a local garage sale. We spent the whole $3 bucks on it. Had to buy a tire repair kit at Dollar King (you guess) for a dollar. Four dollars and lots of fun.
He enjoyed helping me out fixing the flat tire.
Please note that the point here is not to save money by not buying a new bike for my kid. It is actually much more fun to have them involved in "fixing" and making them feel like they participated in creating of this new toy.
The bike came without training wheels so I started teaching him to drive without. It takes about four hours for a kid to learn to drive a two-wheeler with no training wheels. The problem is that we do not have time and stamina to run after them for four hours. So we spread that time across 3-4 weeks. 15 minutes here 5 minutes there. Last couple of weekends were extra fun as he really started driving it on his own. Last weekend we practiced stopping and he is doing pretty much good job on that although he likes to hits peoples mail boxes and drive into grass.
Test Drive
Yesterday he learned how to start on his own. After that I slowed down on running behind him. Today he fell down "nicely" (nicely means he did not like it). It is all part of the learning curve and it is good to learn that when riding a bike you have to be careful.
Note to the parents
Do not try to teach them to ride a two wheeler on your full stomach. Yesterday I ate whole lot of home made lasagna... Not fun running after a kid on a bike like that.
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