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After a very difficult first day teaching my 7 year old (on grass and holding on for him), I felt he would never learn. After watching this and using your tips and using an athletics track, on day two - it’s as if he’s been riding for years! Within 10 minutes he was off independently, thank you so much for making this!

Amazing tips, helped me to teach my 8 years old daughter to ride a bike within 3 hours today. From not being able to keep her ballance for a second to being able to ride on her own for around 1 minute. Obviously a lot of practice is still needed, but I didn't expect that within 3 hours I would be able to let her go and see her ride on her own. Thanks a lot! ❤

My 6 Year old learnt to ride in 30 mins using your techniques, lesson by lesson. Its really amazing to see my kid grasp it so fast. Thanks a lot !

Truly brilliant video. Thanks so much! I taught my 7 year old and 6 year old to ride in 30 minutes using this method. No exaggeration.

It worked for my son 🎉 Thank you so much for this. The hard part was getting him to pedal instead of looking down at the pedal. After awhile they get comfortable and forget you are not holding them under the arms and the rest in history. Felt real good accomplishing this.

Amazing, our 5 year old went from unable to ride to riding on own in 3 days! Outstanding advice here.

Used this video with my 5 year old this week (February half term). Absolutely brilliant tips for teaching and his confidence grew quickly. I highly recommend this training video, thank you for posting!

Thank you for this. My little boy struggles with co-ordination and this really helped. He's just managed a few meters independently on the first session. I had been holding the seat and this method makes so much more sense for rider and helper! I had ordered stabilisers but I'm sure by the time they arrive he won't be needing them!

Just to say I watched your video this morning and by following some of your tips my son is riding his bike by himself this afternoon,. I'm amazed and so proud,,, thank you soo much your video is fantastic 👍🏽🙏🏾

I fully agree, no training wheels! My grandson found balance and braking by himself and managed at the age of 2 yrs. At the same time he learned pedalling on a small three wheeled tractor. After 4 months he gradulated to pedalbiking in 30 minutes.

Fantastic advice! I had been trying to teach my 8 year old for the longest time without success. But after watching this video I was able to teach my kid in a couple of sessions. I think the three main aspects were how to steer the child, learning to brake while walking the bike, and the turning body mechanics. These 3 elements were the key for her to acquire confidence and control.

Great instructions. My 5 year old boy learnt within less than an hour. This video really helped because i initially thought id have to hold the bike instead of his underarms. Thank god for this video

Great video, I followed this advice with two exceptions, my daughter, 5 years old, had stabilizers and not a very good bike. It took three 10 minute sessions to get her to ride without any assistance. I recommend following Isla's advice shown in this video.

I learned to ride about 5 y old. My dad pushed the bike to get going, i started to gain speed in gently sloping farm road, didnt know how to brake but the speed was already slowing so I just falled offed. Fast forward 30 something years the exhilarating feeling is there and still learning new things about riding your bike.

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Thank you - I am teaching my 4 year old to ride and this has been very helpful.

Thank you thank you thank you for this vid. It works! My son is now riding his bike without training wheels. And he's only 3 years old. Great technique!

I found that starting them out on a tricycle first got them to learn what and how the pedaling part works. then moving to a real bike with adjustable training wheels (stabilizers) worked really well. both mine learned by 3 1/2 this way.

I live in Türkiye 🇹🇷 and I still see parents teaching their kids to bike with stabilizers. It takes days and they struggle a lot, I hope one day most of them will learn this best technique. Thanks to this video I’ve learned to explain why not start with stabilizers: “they have first to unlearn tricycle” Because they learn a different thing, not an exact simulation of bicycle, this is the key point.

My 4 year- old stepdaughter learned in 40 mins. Thank you for the tips!

Great tips. My 3 year old was able to get her own balance after just a few tries (took less than an hour). She had been on supporting wheels since age 2.

So taping feet to pedals and sending them down Fort William DH track is a no no?

I have no patience but I do want to teach my own kid how to ride a bike. She's 8 and she can't grasp using the paddles. This time I didn't yell. We took a break and will try again later this evening. Too hot out anyways. Love the vid btw

Thank you for the advice. I myself didn't learn to ride as a child and avoided it until age 28 (I can now ride btw). I'll be taking my son out today without his stabilisers for the first time so I'm hoping I can be a good teacher for him!

I would never have believed this works as well as it does. Trained my 5 year old son in 30mins, then my 6 year old niece, then my 4 year old son, then my 5 year old niece. I’m like the go to guy for bike training now. I’d tell anyone about this video, it’s fantastic!

I learned with my friends , if your kiddo sees that their friends can ride they might wanna do it to! Their friends will most likely help them and it helped me. Quiet neighbourhoods and caravan sites are great for beginners!

I'm trying to teach BOTH my 5&7 year old to ride a bike

This helped immensely! Thank you so much.

I ain’t a parent ( mom or a dad ) I’m just teaching my young cousin

Thank you for this video. My 3.5 year old son learned how to ride a bike in approx. 10 minutes. I was using your technics. Thank you!

I come across some people that much to my amazement are unable to ride a bicycle !!! So strange that in all their lives they've had no interest in bicycles. Personally I can't imagine life without bicycles and motorcycles. I loved it so much that I leant to ride from very early age with no trainer wheels, on a bicycle that was too big for me, because that's what there was in our house Now 65 years later I have many bicycles and motorcycles which I repair and collect, and I use all of them, some of which are crazy fast bicycles . thank you for you video.

Thanks for the tips. Reassuring to know I'm on the right track with my 3 year old. I especially like the idea of introducing her to breaking while off the bike.

My son learned when he was 2.5, balance bike helped a lot.

This video was so helpful! My kid learnt how to ride a bike in 5 sessions. Also it helped save my back! EBefore I saw the video I had thought I have to hold on to the seat.

This lady just saved my back!

Thank you. I could teach my daughter to ride the bike herself within two days by following this.

brilliant video. I'm going to teach my boys at the weekend, thanks so much

Me and my 4 year old watched this before we went off to have a go! She did so well and only had to stop as my back was breaking haha xx

I taught my daughter to ride a bike within an hour with these tips, thank you

Thank you - we followed your advice and my son caught on in half an hour!!!

I appreciate the concern and the cute tips but I couldn't remember anything more annoying and dangerous than an adult running around me and pushing me when I try to feel the bike for myself. In soviet Russia I had stabilizers, removed them once I felt adventurous and started riding right away no problem. I think the child won't learn if not interested. Otherwise he inevitably will mainly on it's own with some supervision here and there.

Wow tremendously informative I must say I am impressed you covered quite a bit more than I would have ever even considered. I will take all of your advice and give it a go thank you so much.

Brilliant. Taking the training wheels off my kids bike tonight.

We used a balance bike too. it works great.

Before I could ride a motorcycle as an adult. I would ride pillion behind my brother. It was a scary experience. Like how much more the bike leaned into the corner. How much engine braking my brother did. What entry speed he could carry into a corner. Both my kids rode behind me on my bicycle. And they had balance bikes. My daughter wasn't even 3 when she first rode a bicycle. My son 3 and a half. Getting the seat height is not easy. When say they could ride. They still had to get a push start and they used their feet as brakes. My daughter at 5 can mostly self start, can control her decent with hand brakes and emergency brake. I remember watching this video before we purchased any ride on toys. We had a tricycle and it hung in the garage most of the time. Both still ride their balance bikes every now and again. Then apply what they learn to the bicycle. The other key thing is the weight of the bicycle. First attempt was with a heavy price friendly bicycle. That was not working. Then we bought a Woom bicycle. Like magic. And easy on the parents backs too. We have two kids that can ride bicycles because of this video. I am grateful.

My dad is gonna teach me when im in austrailia i can,t WAIT!!!

I love cycling my friends also know how too some of them go super fast~!

Every single thing the lady tells is what I did. My son was able to ride the pedal bike on his very first visit to the park. He had a balance bike to practice on for one day before that though.

Wow amazing video hope this helps my daughter to learn to ride a bike

I remember being a child and my grandfather teaching me how to ride a bicycle, I fell down and got bruised so many times but I eventually got it.

This video helped me to learn how to ride, I am almost 40 😁

I have found it very exasperating trying to teach my now 6 year old to ride a bike. When I was a kid, I taught myself to ride a bike very much the way this video suggests. I had a beat up old bike with pedals that didn't work, so I road the bike down a hill, without pedaling, just balancing all the way down. (Brakes didn't work either, so I just fell over in the grass at the bottom to stop). My daughter, on the other hand, is not so ambitious, and I have to drag her outside to get her to learn. I've been trying to teach her with training wheels and it hasn't worked, so I'm going to take this lady's advice and get her a balance bike. :)

My cousin actually just got his bike yesterday and my dad said that both of us can train with it .. and then I got my bike and now I kinda know how to ride a bike

Brilliant video will be putting this to use today

Great video! Only comment is that you didn't mention foot position on pedals, it would be good to encourage good placement from an early age. It looks like maybe that's what you're doing at 2:19, would be good to mention it

Now I have a question: when do you introduce gears to the youngsters?

What an amazing, helpful and detailed video! Thankyou 👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you so much for this tutorial. ❤️ My 3y/o learned biking with pedal so fast using your tips and advice.

Very informative video, thank you for uploading!

Very well explained. Thank you for making this video and sharing these useful tips.

Take the pedals off. Take the grainy wheels off. When they get used to balancing bang the pedals back on and jobs a good un.

Hi really helpful vid. Any advise my daughter had managed to master the pedaling and balance within 2 days without her training wheels but I'm strugling to get her steering streight and not ride into bushes?

Awesome!!!!So very helpful!!!!Thk you!!

Thank you! Excellent instructions!

This lady is great, as is the video...but seriously now, 616 people gave a thumbs down to this?! Hilarious hate here...

So no clipless pedals first?

dam she broke it down to a science 🙌🏾💯😂

How I reached myself to ride a bike is first I trained at the balance then turning to the left or right then the pedals

I have a question. So, in your experience, it's better not to teach a kid without a coaster brake and go directly to the hand brakes? An awesome video. I have two boys I want to teach this summer. Thanks for a great tutorial!

I'm currently teaching my 7 year old and goodness lol. This is frustrating.

Great video! Really appreciate it! Super helpful! Thank you.

I self taught myself to ride a bike when I was six

Great video. So confident! Will check back in tomorrow :D

Even road pitch makes it difficult when they first start. I removed 1 training wheel at a time

Thank you! 3 year old dispatched in a couple of hours :)

I an 10,I'm still learning how to ride :( but I will keep learning everyday and I will never forget the Samsung quote! DO WHAT YOU CANT!!!

I am 10 and trying to learn the cycle my friends and sisters are helping me but to be honest I feel that I am doing my best when I am alone lol and it's sooo embarrassing to learn it in front of everyone! 😆🙃😅🙂

Great video. Thanks for this. Very helpful

Should really teach them to start the bike without already being in the seat.

crash or ride is the motto round here

Is whistler a good place to teach my child and give him a carbon bike?

i really wanna learn how to ride a bike and im actually really good at staying balanced, but i cant take a turn and im to scared to try it again cause last time i did and i failed my dad yelled at me💀

Great video, very helpful. Thanks!

I’m pulling my hair out with my nieces after 4 sessions. They learned how to ride with support wheels and now they can’t manage to balance to save their life without the support wheels 😡

That's a cool bike, does anyone know what brand & model? Thanks

Great video.

Is it weird I'm 12 and still cannot ride a bike? I'm just not good at my balance cause everytime I start riding, it always leans and I don't have stabilizers! can someone give me some tips?

THX NOW I KNOW HOW TO RIDE A BIKE NOW THX XX

learning a cycle is very very easy😇😇😇

Great video - thank you

Lol first time I rode I bike but every time I fell so I gave up and I sold it but then my friend learnt and I got jealous then I told him can I have your bike? He said yeah why not then I tried I then I could only ride like 1 second then it was 5 seconds the third day I just tried to go so fast then I got the balance and now I could ride how much I want yey

I'm learning

Great advice. You must have done this a few times..... haha! I find most times you have to train parents to relax more than the kis and balance.

I am 12 and I dont know how to ride a bike!!! embarrassing!!

Im 16 and I learnt last week

Good

nice training

Ruski is Early This Time Peach

Great video :D

Bruh when our parents hold the bike and we look at videos like that then we know what our parents will do and I will never ride a bike again cuz today (2020 23rd feb) my bikes back wheel hit my bum! And hurt me it could of killed me >:[