Tag: children
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An Amazing Spring of Bike Days!
It’s springtime, and children are everywhere on bicycles. Bike Smart Easton has tried to balance this youthful exuberance of conveyance with bicycle street smarts. Since our first event on March…
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Bike Smart Easton Featured in Express Times, January 26, 2015
Bike Smart Easton Featured in Express Times Article “Easton bicycle safety program rolls into schools, community centers”, January 26, 2015
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Training Wheels or Balance Bike?
The classic image of a child learning to ride a bicycle is a moment in time. This snapshot often captures the breakthrough moment when the child connects their motor skills to pedal, steer and keep their weight over the wheels.
The beauty of two wheels in-line is that the bike can pivot on the axis where the rubber meets the road. You can see this on a micro-level when anyone rides a bicycle. In a straight line, the rider’s weight is always slightly shifting side-to-side. As a rider’s speed increases above 5 miles per hour, less steering is done by turning the handlebars, and more steering is done by leaning/angling the bicycle into the turn.
