Fig. 1: Balance Bikes and Electric Balance Bikes Blog
Hey parents! Are you looking around for a good balance and coordination balance bike for your child to ride safely? Want to teach them how to ride their first bike? We understand every concern of yours as parents and how important it will be to buy the perfect and controlled two-wheeling pedal-free bike that can help develop and train your budding kid’s riding skills.
With a balance bike motorbike, young growing children aged months to 2-years-old and more can stimulate their confidence and learn the crucial techniques of riding a bike that can help at an older age in riding conventional bikes.
Get Up Kids understands every parent’s emotion with their child’s first experiences of everything. We will make your child’s first balance bike motorbike ride the right and best choice. Guiding your toddler on their first ride is one of the momentous events of childhood memories that everyone wants to capture.
But what do we think is more significant? Seeing happy kids after a completely bruise-less training, trolling their balance bike motorbike over the grass, down the sidewalk, around the backyard, wherever, whenever they want to ride!
We understand that as a parent, you are looking forward to your child’s first ride. Learning and training may seem scary, as it requires coordination and balance skills. There are plenty of models available in the market today. Making a decision that is the best fit for your child’s transition and necessary bike-riding skills to develop healthy growth and boost confidence can be a bit difficult.
In this comprehensive buying balance bike motorbike guide, we have also explored all types of sturdy, comfortable two-wheeled accessible children balance bikes for the age group less than 2, to balance bike for 2-year-olds in Australia up to older ages.
Let us discuss the basics of balance bike motorbike to help you much more in selecting the right type for your child:
What is a Balance Bike?
Fig. 2: What is a Balance Bike?
The balance bike is considered the best approach to teaching bike riding to children in recent years. With the help of a sturdy balance bike motorbike, a child can begin to maintain balance while sitting or in motion. This is roughly the same result achieved by someone who may put their child on training wheels.
The balance bikes motorbikes can:
- Train your child much better than any other sort of training wheel, without any fall even while attempting to ride on an off-balance tilt surface
- Do anything and go anywhere with offering endless enjoyable, independent, and adventurous rides to a growing kid
- Allows the child to have speedy rides up to any distance as they are also light in weight to handle
- Swiftly make your child’s riding transition to pedal bikes
- Builds confidence and coordination
- Helps to keep children healthy and active
- Teach basics of traffic rules
- Improves child’s fitness
- Encourages children to interact with outside environmental factors like temperature, rain, wind, etc.
To choose your child’s first bike, you will have to consider certain factors while buying-
- How your child can sit comfortably on the balance bike motorbike and touch their feet to the ground
- Whether the legs would not hit anything
- Your child should reach the handlebars with ease
- And of course, colours and accessories that may come with or may you have to purchase
From a parent’s perspective, you can create a whole new experience for your child by purchasing a new balance bike motorbike rider, without overlooking their confidence, expectations, fears, ability, anxieties with obvious factors like safety and easy accessibility.
Fig. 3: Easy to reach Handlebars
As many young kids love riding bikes, we believe that their fond childhood memories are protected. So, while making a purchase, you should also check:
Physical Attributes
- Age and height:
Learning how to ride a balance bike motorbike is important for your child’s development and childhood memories. During a child’s development, age, balance, and height also change at a faster pace. Therefore, only considering the factors like height through can lead to mistakes when buying your child’s new ride.
You can glance at our different models of the balance bike motorbike page enlisted with the specifications and dimensions. We have listed our models as per the age with the correct bike dimensions and weight of the bikes.
Chances are that the brands and models of the bike may vary with the relevant age and height of your kid. Hence, as a parent, you should be well aware of the height differences while making a purchase which should not affect the ability and confidence of your kid when using the equipment.
- Capacity and determination:
Capacity here means control over the bike. With more control over the bike, the more your kid will be comfortable with their ride. For the ease of learning how to use the balance bike motorbike, control of the bike plays an essential role in ensuring that your kid has a fun riding experience.
How can a child find enjoyment if they are unable to ride a bike properly?
As parents, you have to choose a bike according to your child’s abilities, rather than comparing with other children. All children have different capabilities. Some children can ride a balance bike motorbike naturally, while others may need skills and time to become independent.
So you have to subjectively make choices according to your child’s ability and the size that suits your child the best. If the balance bike motorbike is large for your child’s body frame, their ability and confidence can be affected and that can cause an unpleasant riding experience.
Fig. 4: Choose Balance Bike Motorbike that Suits your Child the Best
- Physical capability:
You can ensure that your chosen balance bike motorbike is the best possible fit for your child when they can:
- Sit on the seat and stretch out both their feet to the ground comfortably
- While sitting can reach out to the handlebars with a slender bend in the arms
- Grasp the steel gliders/handlebars and apply enough pressure to the handbrakes to halt the bike
- Straddle the top of the balance bike conveniently with both the feet placed on the ground
A great and helpful tip for more room is to set the handlebars with the seat to the lowest level. It will also help your child to reach the handlebars with much less effort.
- Balance Bike weight:
Would you allow your child to ride when the balance bike motorbike weighs more than your child do? Why expect this from your child at a learning stage?
The main concern of GetUpKids balance bike motorbike designs is weight. We want to make every child’s childhood memory of learning how to ride a balance bike motorbike fond moments to remember, with an assured safety to young riders and reliability for parents.
Therefore, to guide every parent, we have provided details about the weight of every model of balance bike motorbike with age and the other bike specifications.
- Balance Bike design:
Does it matter? Though as a parent and with a child’s likes and specific tastes, it will not make any real difference to the functionality of GetUpKids patented designs and youth-friendly balance bikes. There is no difference in the design strength-wise too. We have various gender-neutral pleasant colours in our bikes collection to offer a varied choice for today’s young generation.
- Durability:
The balance bike motorbikes lasts for years. As a parent, while buying, you can rest easy with the fact that your child’s balance bike motorbike has quite alongevity .Designed with durable and long-lasting materials, our balance bike was created to stand the test of time. You can trust that we know what goes into making equipment for various ages and the level of durability that is needed for each piece of equipment developed.
Durability not only ensures that the equipment stays in one piece but that it does not break into potentially dangerous items that can harm the child. We understand that safety and durability are two sides of the same coin and imbibe this in our products. You may read more online of our ranges of accessible balance bikes.
- Accessories:
Wearing protective helmets and knee pads is mandatory. While our balance bike motorbike is safe to use, wearing the necessary accessories is important to ensure that your child has the safest and most fun experience. Get Up Kids provides accessories and parts to make safe your balance bike motorbike rides.
You may check out our top-quality protective gears, sets of protective pads, Globber junior helmets without and with flashing LED lights in various colours, Globber toddler gloves in the brighter varied colours and patterns on our Get Up Kids accessories page for more details.
These are some of our best must-haves for today’s children, guaranteeing you high-quality and long-lasting products.
- Colours of the bikes:
Our customers can expect a new and updated colour game for today’s generation. We have designed our models of assorted balance bikes and accessories in a whole range of colours and patterns to give young riders a variety of choices for their balance bike motor bike to have an enjoyable and fun-filled riding experience.
You can take a look at our high-quality and budget-friendly range of models like our balance bike for 2-year-olds in Australia to 5 years-old children. The balance bike for 18 months toddlers is available on our website.
Fig. 5: Independent Balance Bikes for 2-year-old
Explore more about our fun range of accessible, sturdy and independent balance bikes:
- Chillafish BMXIE 2:
An ideal balance bike crafted especially for pre-schooler: 2-year-old-Australia up to 5 years-old-toddlers .This balance bike motorbike is not for use for over 5-years old children.
- Easy to build with no tools required
- Adjustable seat height
- Excellent longevity
- Removable footrest
- Puncture-proof rubber skin tires
Chillafish BUNZI 1 & 2:
A balance bike motorbike exceptionally for toddlers aged from a year to 3 years. It is not advisable to use it for over 3-year-oldchildren due to the nature of the design.
- Excellent for building confidence
- Funny and attractive rabbit handle shape
- Silent anti-skid TPE wheel used for indoors and outdoors
- Gradually balance learning
- No marking risk on floors
ChillafishFixie:
The best speedy balance bike motorbike for children aged between 2 years up to 5 years.
- Padded seats
- Slower speed from 2mph to 4-5 mph
- Mountain bike geometry designs for toddlers
- (Only) requires a nut bolt to attach while assembling
Chillafish SKATIE SKOOTIE:
This versatile balance bike motorbike is available for children over 3-years.
- Perfect skateboard learning tool
- Convertible scooter/skateboard
- Easy rolling and balance
- Multitask efficiency
GLOBBER GO Bike:
An essential balance bike motorbike to teach and develop motor and balance skills for 2 years to 5-year-old children
- Streamlined design
- Durable ride
- Reflective T-bar design for extra safety while playing outdoors
- Strengthens the back and makes your child sportive and secured
- Stimulates mental and physical development
- GLOBBER GO Bike Duo:
An accessible super sturdy balance bike motorbike is available for toddlers over 2 years old.
- Reversible balance bike that quickly and easily changes from a dual rear wheel low frame to a single rear wheel high frame
- Saddles can be attached in four different positions and the steering wheel in two positions
- Strider 12 Sport Balance Bike:
A well-devised sporty balance bike motor bike is available for toddlers and kids between 18 months to 5 years.
- Two-seat post lengths Sport with plenty of room for growth
- Easy to assemble with quick releases, adjustment of handlebars and seat poles
Special Note : All parents should take care of the adjustments and assembly of the seat with the footrest settings. Always ensure your child wears protective accessories while riding. Avoid riding in areas such as sloped driveways, hills, alleys, traffic, steps, streets, swimming pools and other water bodies. Never forget to read the manual of your balance bikes. Contact or call us for the best deals on Balance Bikes.
