Comments on: Like A Bike — A Must Have Item

By: Jenya

Jenya — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:25:29 +0000

OK, 500 hundred years ago people were also able to move from one point to another… by horses. Does this make the invention of the car worthless? I can give many similar examples:)

My point is that this bike is gooood!
It is light and easy to handle by a small child!
It is with a geometry which allows extremely small children to ride it!
Yes you can remove the pedals of a normal bike, but your 2y old most probably would not be able to mount it.
And YES, it is expensive. Consider then the fact that you can resell it and think “Does it make sense to invest some money and make the riding of a bike a fun and no stress to my child”:)

Every parent make his own choice and I don’t see the point why should we shout against these which has chosen the likeabike.

By: BohoBelle

BohoBelle — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:15:36 +0000

I had to laugh. When I grew up (in Australia) we were just given a bike (with peddles) and then crashed into every tree and up and down the road until we got the knack of it.

By: Tracy Balazy

Tracy Balazy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:41:09 +0000

I like that, Carla! Thanks for sharing your story.

By: Jeanine

Jeanine — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:08:22 +0000

Um….

Exactly how does a child ride a bike that has no pedals?

I’ve never heard of such.

By: Marj M.

Marj M. — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:08:41 +0000

Cranky? Not in my opinion. Keeping up with the Jone’s has and always will be around. Too bad.
A child that young usually does not know the darn difference………..expensive or Goodwill, they just are glad to ride it.
Taking the peddles off was an excellent idea.

By: Kristen@The Frugal Girl

Kristen@The Frugal Girl — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:10:05 +0000

I totally think a metal bottle is worth the cost. I adore my Klean Kanteen, and I don’t foresee having to buy a new one for the rest of my life.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:51:04 +0000

Wow- judgmental much? I usually enjoy reading your posts but this one was, yes a bit cranky.
Although the like- a- bike is quite pricey, both my kids transitioned directly to 2-wheelers from a ($89) skuut bike. Each one used the skuut for a good year and really enjoyed getting around much more than on a tricycle or their hand-me-down bike w/training wheels. So, maybe for some families the balance bike is a trendy, use for a day toy, but we got plenty of use to justify the cost.

By: Carla

Carla — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:30:58 +0000

I am remembering back — back further than most of you people were alive — to when my brother and I got bikes for Christmas in the mid 50s. Mine was new — a lightweight, sweet little blue Schwinn that I rode for years until my knees knocked the handlebars when I pumped. My brother got a used bike, but I don’t think either of us realized it at the time. My parents had refurbished it, painting it a cool black and cream themselves. It was HEAVY, real heavy, but I wonder if some of the muscles David has today can be traced to that monster of a bike he learned to ride on and subsequently lugged all over the neighborhood. Neither David nor I knew how to ride when we first got our “new” bikes. I promise you, we learned in spite of the fact that Daddy and Mother did not spend the 1950s equivalent of over $600 for a practice bike!

By: thenonconsumeradvocate

thenonconsumeradvocate — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:01:43 +0000

Mary Anne,

My older son was having a terrible time figuring out how to ride his bike and removing the pedals was something that his P.E. teacher recommended.

Katy Wolk-Stanley
The Non-Consumer Advocate

By: Mary Anne

Mary Anne — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:58:13 +0000

My now-18 yr old son’s first bike after his tricycle was a freebie: a hand-me-down from an older cousin of his. We bought the training wheels, then removed those when he was ready. I have spent my professional nursing life in peds, live in a subdicision in the burbs and have never once known anyone to remove the pedals from a bike for any reason. That must be a west coast consept.