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INTRODUCING YOUR CHILDREN TO CYCLING

INTRODUCING YOUR CHILDREN TO CYCLING Did your child learn to ride a bike ? Teach him how to master his mount! Starting, braking, balance, trajectory ... Here are some educational exercises and some practical tips for learning to ride a bike. Learn to pedal and start cycling Starting a bike is a complicated exercise for a child! To leave without losing your balance, your child must first learn to place his feet on the pedals without looking. If one of his feet slips, he can easily find his pedals without looking for them. For the bike start, teach your child to start by positioning the front foot above the level of the crank axle. In this way, he has more strength to make his first pedal turn and gains enough speed to keep his balance. Do not forget the child bike helmet. You can also offer him some start-up exercises: start it on a slight slope to facilitate learning. When mastering his first pedal laps, get him started on flat and then on a slight climb. His balan

LEARN TO RIDE A BIKE WHY CHOOSE A BIKE?

LEARN TO RIDE A BIKE WHY CHOOSE A BIKE? To settle, to concentrate, to launch, to push on the legs, to pedal, to fall. Restart. Learning to ride a bike without small wheels is often a rite of passage that is not always pleasant. And this is where the balance bike, this bike without pedals, is a game changer. "A simple and brilliant innovation" is what Fredric Heron, economist, and urban planner, a lecturer at the University of Lille 1, wrote about the balance bike . But how can this bike without pedals be a tool of the first choice for learning to bike "like the big ones"? LEARN TO RIDE A BIKE WHY CHOOSE A BIKE? Learn the bike in stages "Cycling is linking and coordinating many movements. Add here the coordination eye/hand and balance ... that's a lot of elements to take into account, details Karine Ruling, psychometry. The balance bike, in this sense, offers the possibility of breaking down the movements. It allows discovering the balance, the