Thanks Francis for loaning me your home made coaster bike. It looks like I may not need it very long.
Camille saw it and demanded to ride it this afternoon. Well... within an hour she was coasting as far as she could go out of our driveway, maybe 100-150'. She can balance herself properly as long as she's moving.
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I took off the training wheels on her big bike now and tried her on it. However, she's having troubles with balancing and pedaling at the same time. I'll give her another day or two on your bike, to get the balancing down solid, and lower the seat as Kat suggested. I suspect she'll be pedaling on two wheels by this weekend.
EDIT: Well, it's been another half hour. Camille's now doing multiple trips up and down the street on her big pedal bike without dabbing!!! She'd demanded to go back out after dinner. Turning around is a little shaky still and she had a small fall once. She refuses to use pads and wants to ride on the street where it's smother and more room, so she got a little scraped. But she's still begging to still go out after dark!
Hmmm, that was a pretty short loan of a coaster bike. Thanks Francis!
Hey, now we need a kid/family play date! I promised her one with her new-found MTBR kiddie friends once she rode by herself. Now I have to follow through.
And just to think of her
first escape on a bike three years ago....