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The end of stabilisers?
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The end of stabilisers?
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Interesting idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbfe2..._embedded#t=13 Groscopic stabiliser in wheel driven by a motor; a high tech solution looking for a problem How about the like-a-bike low-tech solution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si7ZN2iloJs -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" |
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The end of stabilisers?
Phil Cook wrote:
Steve wrote: Interesting idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbfe2..._embedded#t=13 Groscopic stabiliser in wheel driven by a motor; a high tech solution looking for a problem How about the like-a-bike low-tech solution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si7ZN2iloJs We started teaching our 6 yo shortly after she came to us. She had a bike with stabilisers, which she wanted to learn to do without. So we took them off, and the pedals too, and lowered the seat to make it into a slightly less-good scooter bike. Didn't take her long to learn on that, and we soon had pedals on. We'd have started with a scooter-bike if she'd been younger when she came to us. At the weekend I saw an Islabikes Rothan up close: looked v. nice and the parents were full of praise. It had already been handed on to a happy younger sibling. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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The end of stabilisers?
In message , Peter Clinch
writes Phil Cook wrote: Steve wrote: Interesting idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbfe2..._embedded#t=13 Groscopic stabiliser in wheel driven by a motor; a high tech solution looking for a problem How about the like-a-bike low-tech solution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si7ZN2iloJs We started teaching our 6 yo shortly after she came to us. She had a bike with stabilisers, which she wanted to learn to do without. So we took them off, and the pedals too, and lowered the seat to make it into a slightly less-good scooter bike. Didn't take her long to learn on that, and we soon had pedals on. We'd have started with a scooter-bike if she'd been younger when she came to us. Yep, our youngest (now getting on for 5) had been riding the rather cheaper Lidl like-a-like-abike since she could get on it. When she got her first bike last xmas she was pretty much up and riding straight away. Though she struggled for a while with how to get going and get her feet on the pedals before she fell over - needed a little help until she was actually pedalling. Took eldest a while. She got her first bike at about the same age, but wasn't happy trying to learn and ended up using stabilisers. We did get the Lidl scooter bike about 6 months later, but by then even though she soon learnt to scoot along happily, she didn't want to give up the stabilisers for a while. -- Chris French |
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