Journey of a 3 year old riding a bike, from a Strider 12” to Woom 2 14” bike with no training wheels 

The Woom 2 bike is amazing! He really did just start riding with pedals in just 2 days with them on! We had the pedals off the bike and used it as a balance bike for a couple weeks so he could learn the hand brakes. My son is small for his age, I was considered about him fitting on it too. Look at the seat height, my son was right at it but he made it work. I would order one sooner than later, they’re always on back order but if your lucky you can find them used for sale but usually over the retail price.

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@@MultiPHILCORE good tip for the brakes will follow that one and thanks for the advice.

I’m not entirely sure how his height measured up to the recombinations but the inseam was right at the bottom of the range. I’d say the inseam is more important than height, my son wasn’t able to stand and ride until a year after learning to ride. Comfort on the seat is important, I’d say as long as they can reach the ground on their tippy toes you should be good. You don’t want them to grow out of it too fast either, my son was on a woom 2 for only a year and a half until he started riding a woom 3.

I did not we only used there 12” balance bike. I did not compare Strider 14” to the Woom 14”. I just fell in love with all I read about Woom and went for it.

The Strider was given as a gift, the goal at the beginning was never really to have him ride early but he took to the Strider really well and with consistent seat adjustments to keep him on his toes I could tell it was working so decided to get the Woom 2. That being said we road only on pavement and I’m sure the Woom 1 is a spectacular bike it just wasn’t the route we took.

The clicking you hear is the ratchet mechanism for the free wheel. It allows you to pedal backwards freely and clicks while coasting or pedaling backwards. Similar to the clicking sound of a socket wrench when turned “backwards”.