{"id":2897,"date":"2018-05-07T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2019-09-23T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T22:09:34","slug":"best-14-kids-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/best-14-kids-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Best 14″ Kids Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is my daughter’s 5th birthday and we got her a new bike. TL;DR? We settled on a ByK E-250<\/a>. Want to know why? Read on…<\/p>\n

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As always, I did a bunch of research. One article I came across and revisited several times was Why You Should Never Buy a 12\u2033 Bike! (with a few exceptions)<\/a>. Like everyone should be, I was skeptical of such a bold claim. Some might even call it clickbait.\u00a0But I kept coming back to that article because of some valid points.<\/p>\n

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Balancing<\/h2>\n

Kids that don’t yet ride on two wheels should be learning to balance no matter what their age. It’s the single hardest thing to learn on a bike. Why muddle it up with pedals, gears, brakes, and bells?<\/p>\n

Marlo got a Strider for her 4th birthday last year. Despite her constant nagging that it didn’t have pedals, she finally warmed up to it. At first she cursed the “wobbly bike” but would still give it the occasional college try because she saw her brother riding on two wheels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5 months later and she had balancing down-pat. No training wheels, no parent running awkwardly behind hunched over. Just turn ’em loose with no pedals.<\/p>\n