This really isn't a formal class, but we get enough requests for this that we thought we would share the easiest and fastest way to teach someone (even yourself) how to ride a bike -- for kids AND adults.
- Lower the seat so they can sit and put their feet flat on the ground. If they teeter todder from side to side, or they are on their tippy toes -- this will not work and you need to find a smaller bike before going to the next step.
- Take off the pedals using a 15mm open wrench, or bring the bike to the Community Bike Shop and we can show you how.
- Just like a scooter, have them kick and coast around a flat parking lot. When they get to the point where they can coast as far as they can kick, you are ready for the next step.
- Put on the pedals, and let them ride away.
As opposed to the sink or swim down deadman's hill approach that most of us learned by. This new method separates the Power from the Balance. Few people can figure out both at first, so mastering Balance and then adding Power back in works magically.