What do you think if the right age to buy a child's first bike?

zoomaway

What age should a child be to get their first bicycle?

wazky

Bikes over 4-5 years usually have a bit of rust and wear and tear.

So under that would be preferable.

Edit: Hate when OP changes which in turn makes my smart arse comment redundant.

Graham

I think you should be in you mid twenties before you even consider buying a child a bike.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

zoomaway wrote: »

So what do you think is the right age to buy a child's first bike? ( and by bike I mean bicycle and not tricycle)

I'd wait until I had a kid.

EDIT - This made sense before the title was corrected, dammit!

lost in cork

Oh for gods sake

Dj Grimreefer

lost in cork wrote: »

Oh for gods sake

it wouldn't be for god, he is talking about getting a bike for a kid

zoomaway

lost in cork wrote: »

Oh for gods sake

Ok apologies for the bungled question.I am laughing at myself!

It should have been what is the right age at which a child should get their first bicycle?

Chucken

lost in cork wrote: »

Oh for gods sake

Dj Grimreefer wrote: »

it wouldn't be for god, he is talking about getting a bike for a kid

You misunderstood...he's groaning cos he's still lost in Cork.

Chucken

zoomaway wrote: »

Ok apologies for the bungled question.I am laughing at myself!

It should have been what is the right age at which a child should get their first bicycle?

Their 3rd Christmas is a good time or birthday, whichever comes first.

KTRIC

If I ever have kids I'll get them their first motorbike at about 4 or 5

Dj Grimreefer

zoomaway wrote: »

Ok apologies for the bungled question.I am laughing at myself!

It should have been what is the right age at which a child should get their first bicycle?

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Custardpi

Since for some unfathomable reason this has been posted in After Hours I'd say 3 & a half years old is about right.

Stained Class

My eldest learned at 4.

She took a bike from a neighbours house & went up & down the road with it untill she got the hang of it.

The neighbours got the funny side if it. I was so proud of my daughter that I bought her a bike the very next day.:)

muletide

Age 1 - Walk
Age 2 - Swim
Age 3 - Cycle

zoomaway

Stained Class wrote: »

My eldest learned at 4.

She took a bike from a neighbours house & went up & down the road with it untill she got the hang of it.

The neighbours got the funny side if it. I was so proud of my daughter that I bought her a bike the very next day.:)

My little one is three and wants a bike because all the kid's have them. I don't want to deprive my child but am worried if it's too much freedom.I didn't have a proper bike till I was seven or eight.

Stained Class

zoomaway wrote: »

My little one is three and wants a bike because all the kid's have them. I don't want to deprive my child but am worried if it's too much freedom.I didn't have a proper bike till I was seven or eight.

Yeah, my one had been pestering me for months & then took matters into her own hands.

I admired her ingenuity & bought her one.

We live in a quiet estate & it's quite safe for kids to use bikes & suchlike.

Tar.Aldarion

Well quite young, could see toddlers cycling around amsterdam with their parents, no tricycles either!

anncoates

As early as possible without stabilizers for lols.

wil

zoomaway wrote: »

My little one is three and wants a bike because all the kid's have them. I don't want to deprive my child but am worried if it's too much freedom.I didn't have a proper bike till I was seven or eight.

Ok so I guess you are being serious, in future suggest better post in the parenting forum, they'll take slightly less p1ss.

(my contribution might have been "if you are on any kind of register then never".)

Whenever they are able to learn the balance and you have time and patience to teach them, go ahead. Kids bikes are cheap and easy to come by secondhand.

Slightly bothers me you mention of "too much freedom" in relation to a 3 year old. Do you mean letting them off around an estate or the road on their own.
Unless supervised, that'd be a no. Little kids on bikes and cars dont mix.