This last weekend we headed down to the Meadowdale Highschool track. Wesley, you see, has been wanting to try learning to ride his bike without his training wheels. Since I got a bike on Friday, he couldn’t wait any longer. The track is just a few blocks from our house and made for a nice, flat, car-less, rubbery place to learn.  Following the advice in this video we took the pedals off of Wesley’s bike along with the the training wheels. The idea is that the kid can learn to balance without the threat of falling down and balance is the most important thing to learn about riding the bike.

Unfortunately Wesley’s bike is just a little too big and even with the seat all the way down he couldn’t get his feet flat on the ground.  So he pushed himself around for a few minutes, but had trouble balancing because he had to lean side to side to reach the ground. We put the pedals back on and after just a few minutes he was riding around for short distances all by himself.

Here we are celebrating his first real ride on a two-wheeler:

And here we are shortly thereafter being attacked by crocodiles (They live in the rain gutter on the inner edge of the track. What, you didn’t know?):

After that Wesley rode all the way around the track:

He was really, really pleased with himself.

He still has a few kinks to work out. This crash gave him a nice mark on his armpit that you can still see. He isn’t perfectly stable, but he is well on his way to being training wheel free!

After riding we spent some time playing baseball, running around and of course, picking flowers.

 

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1 Comment on Look Ma! No Training Wheels!

  1. Kathleen says:

    Congratulations Wesley!!!!! Yaya is so proud of you! Great JOb!

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