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    I’m an awful dad….

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    1. Famous_Weather2012 on

      Don’t bother with stabilisers. Start him on a balance bike or just take the pedals off and drop the seat.

      Few months, maybe even a few weeks of that and they should be ready for pedals.

      Stabilisers actively hinder growth on the bike because suddenly the bike doesn’t handle like a bike and turns where they should be leaning they turn the bars instead.

    2. ItsABarmcake on

      Not much help with this, but have you thought of balance bikes? 
      My lad went straight to pedals, no stabilisers.
      And I don’t have to deal with him grounding himself.

      For this problem… Why can’t you undo it? What’s spinning, the axle or sprocket 

    3. mostly_kinda_sorta on

      Fix the threads with a thread chaser. As someone else said, if possible get a balance bike and a trike. This way they learn balance and pedaling separately and putting them together is really quick. I did the training wheels as well and it was pointless. They weren’t really getting better so I took them to a parking lot, took off the training wheels and within 20-30 minutes I had all three of them riding on two wheels. I have triplets and they have wildly different personalities and they all got the hang of it very quickly.

    4. manyhats180 on

      if he can balance bike, set the seat height low enough for him to be able to put both feet on the ground, and go to a perfectly flat parking lot.. i didn’t realize how much the slight curve of the road was causing him problems as he tried to learn pedals. the handle does not help things, my son has one and every time i touched it he accused me of pushing him over

    6. nowpiglet on

      You’re going to want a cone spanner on the narrow and hold it still while you loosen off that thicker nut.

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