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Veteran
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
I manned a stall at a school event on Saturday and spoke to quite a few parents who told me that their child still rode with stabilisers. I was surprised at the advanced ages of some of the kids.
In my own limited experience of teaching kids to ride, I have found stabilisers to be counter-productive. I reckon that riding a bike with them is nothing like riding without. I suppose that they may be useful to get really young children accustomed to the action of pedalling and using the brakes, but other than that I cannot see much use for them.
I never had them and neither did my older brother - our Dad just coached us and we rode after a few false starts.
Do other people find them useful?
In my own limited experience of teaching kids to ride, I have found stabilisers to be counter-productive. I reckon that riding a bike with them is nothing like riding without. I suppose that they may be useful to get really young children accustomed to the action of pedalling and using the brakes, but other than that I cannot see much use for them.
I never had them and neither did my older brother - our Dad just coached us and we rode after a few false starts.
Do other people find them useful?