My daughter learning.

[bladderhead]

Lower the saddle so she can get her feet down easily. Remove the pedals. The balancing is the hard part. Once she can balance she can start pedalling. Best if you can find a place with a slight downslope, because there it is easier to get away from a standing start. Tarmac is better than grass, because the bike will roll more easily.

You could even get her a recumbent.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Made me chuckle

But her daughter might be training for triathlon, she could practise a bike / swim transition.

 

[steveindenmark]

The op is called Jennifer92.
Why would you assume it is a man?

I didnt look at the ops name. It would not be an unusual assumption on here as about 90% of the members are men. No offense intended.

 

[alvintc]

My 5 year old has been solo for about 3 months. Started on a BSO then I caved & he's on a frog (2 younger kids so the costs stack up).

I used the Islabikes video. He was on his own in about 20 minutes (me alongside), then within the 45 he was off. He's had balance bikes & never used stabilisers.

 

[steven1988]

Check out the ready set ride app by british cycling, lots of pointers and lots of on and off bike games to play to make teaching fun rather than scary.

 

[Milkfloat]

My daughter was easy, I set her up in a park pointed towards the cafe and told her when she can cycle all the way there on her own then she could have a slice of chocolate cake. She made it pretty easily.

 

[vickster]

Thats his other daughter

How do you know? The could be another older child

 

[byegad]

If you are capable of doing so, remove the pedals and use as a balance bike.

This is the way to go, also drop the saddle so she can get her feet flat on the ground. Let her play with it like that and she'll soon be asking for the pedals to be refitted. It worked with all three of my grandchildren.

 

[KneesUp]

DD took a while to learn. She was good on a scooter (terrifyingly fast, in fact) but couldn't 'get' cycling at first -she kept forgetting to pedal. She was ok rolling down a (grassy) hill. The 'hold on to the saddle' thing worked quite well, but there is only so far you can run when you are bent double so I got one of those handle-things that attach at the rear wheel, so I could at least stand up straight. That was quite good. Stabilisers less so - they create too much drag on the grass. When she got disheatened by falling off I made up the statistic that on average it takes 200 fallings-off before people can ride a bike. I didn't expect her to keep count, but she did, and would then get back on saying 'only 190 fallings-off to go!' and stuff. Fortunately she learned before she got to 200

 

[Slick]

Nip on wee man.

 

[lane]

My son learnt quickly my daughter struggled. They went away for a short holiday with the grandparents. I said see if you can get her riding her bike. Went to collect them a few days later she was riding - but my mum could barely walk becasue she had run over her foot in the process.

 

[Julia9054]

Eldest took ages to learn. No concept of using his body to balance - a difficult thing to explain to a child who can't feel it naturally .
Took the youngest's stabilizers off and the phone went. Told him "don't move" whilst i answered it. Came back out the house and he was half way down the bloody street!