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 notion of weight transfer, to find its center of gravity ... The balance bike targets an essential learning: that of equilibrium. "Another advantage: the child also begins to consider its environment, to understand that it takes around obstacles ...
A bike suitable for young children
Handy and lighter than children's bikes with small wheels, the balance bikes offer a certain freedom to the learner cyclist: to advance alone, to get out of the ground a little muddy ... The posture that the child is obliged to adopt on a balance bike (a head/body/feet alignment ) corresponds to a physiological, natural posture. A good way to give him confidence ... Because finally, the classic bike small wheels focus on the acquisition of pedaling forgetting the learning of balance. And favors a position that does not correspond to the situations that the child will encounter afterward.From what age to consider the balance bike?
The prerequisite: the child must know how to walk properly. "We can consider the balance bike from 2 years, explains the psycho motor. But if the child started walking at 18/20 months, it may be necessary to wait for a little ... Conversely, if you feel that the child is well toned, sure of him, why not try earlier?". The issue of size is important too: the child should not stand on tiptoe, he must feel safe, master of the situation."With the balance bike, the child immediately discovers what makes all the magic of cycling: the dynamic balance on two wheels, summarizes very well Frédéric Héran, economist, and urban planner, the lecturer at the University of Lille 1. The lightness and simplicity of the machine are perfectly adapted to its morphology and give it an extraordinary dexterity.
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