[JR1427]

Just buy your kid a good quality pedal bike [0], and take the pedals off.

That way they can learn to use the brakes, and when you put the pedals on, they will quickly learn to cycle it. Took my daughter an afternoon.

[0] e.g. https://us.earlyrider.com/products/belter-14-kids-bike-age-3...

[throwworhtthrow]

I'm glad this worked for your family, but in my kids' experience this is too heavy to use as balance bike. By the time they were comfortable hoisting their de-pedaled 12" / 5.4kg bike off the ground, they'd nearly outgrown it. They preferred a cheap hand-me-down balance bike which was half the weight (the upscale ones with brakes and pneumatic tires are self-defeatingly heavier).

[jjav]

Depends when they start, but a bike like that would have been too heavy and too big for a ~1.8 year old.

We started with a Strider which is only 6.5lbs for the whole bike, much more manageable for a under-two year old.

[bravetraveler]

Worked for me, thanks for the fond memory

[simonmales]

Thanks for the tip!