Radio Flyer Air Ride Balance Bike, Toddler Bike, Ages 1.5-5 (Amazon Exclusive), Toddler Bike

This is a cute balance bike. My 2 year old loves it. But, it is very hard to get the bolt tight enough to keep the handle bar from coming un-aligned with the front wheel.It is not much, but just a little bit. I dont think this is a safety issue. The bolt is also a fairly soft metal, so if you try using pliers instead of a wrench, it can make marks on the bolt. Thats covered by the red plastic. Just to be clear, it is tight enough he can ride it. He does not have the strength to twist it out of alignment and it is not loose enough that it comes out of alignment while riding. Just when it is propped up or laying flat on the ground (such as overnight), the weight of the bike will eventually cause the handles and the front wheel to come un-aligned. Or, if I use adult strength, I can twist the handle to be out of alignment with the wheel. So before he rides it, I always re-align it. He loves the little bell on the handles. That was a nice touch. I was rather happy that the bike came mostly assembled. The instructions give you directions from completely un-assembled starting point. So youll actually start on step 3 or 5. I think its worth the money, but its not perfect.

These balance bikes (Striders) are the BEST way bypass training wheels and help even your 2 y/o learn how to actually balance and ride a bike. The natural process of them using their feet and balancing themselves helps them learn to ride on their own. Got this for 2 y/o grandson and within a week he could already push and balance and glide (a little bit) without feet touching. Wont be long before we get him a pedal bike and skip training wheels altogether. AND he LOVES the little bell.

Right size for my 34 month old daughter. And has a lot of room for her to use in the future, even she haven’t learned about it, she still loves to get on it and walk.

Oh my gosh! This was possibly the best purchase I have made for my son!! I purchased it May 4, 2016 when my son was just over 2 years old. He was able to pick it up extremly fast and it was awesome to be able to go on walks while he rode this bike. I would see so many parents and kids struggling at the park to try and ride a bike with training wheels, while my son was riding circles around the park. It helped tremendously with his balance, and last month he got his first peddle bike which I took the training wheels off of and he picked that up in a day! Everyone is amazed at how a 3 year old can ride with no training wheels and I recommend this balance bike to everyone bc it was so helpful for my kiddo to understand how to balance vs relying on training wheels. Such a great purchase, a must have for all 2-3 year olds wanting to ride a bike! If you do not want to constantly have to turn a bike, or move the peddles, or stop to help the little one, this is the go to bike for beginners! they pick it up quickly and will soon be able to ride beside you as you jog or walk! At first a lot of people were skeptical of this bike, why does he have a bike with no peddles? then they would see him take off on it and they were shocked at how well he did on it, and now they know exactly why I got it, the balance he learned on this bike made the transition to a regular bike with no training wheels so easy!

Super easy to put together. I was a little disappointed to find that the wheels are plastic (I thought they were rubber), but I dont think that will really impact the usefulness of the bike. As far as size/height recommendations ....... this was a birthday gift for my two year old. I dont know his height, in inches, but I do know that on his birthday he was in the 75% for height, and the bike is still a bit too big for him. If he sits on the seat, at its lowest setting, he can only touch the ground with the tips of his toes. I suspect that he will grow into by the time hes 2 1/2. If I had it to do all over again I would still purchase this bike. I think it was a good spend.

Great quality; great looking bike. My four-year-old son is crazy about it and is already balancing for 10 feet at a time. I find that many people I talk to dont know what a balance bike is. In case you dont know, a balance bike is a regular bicycle without pedals. Children who cant write a bike teach themselves to balance in no time and once they are big enough, they can ride a pedal bike within a day. I used this method for my daughter by taking the petals off of her first bike after being in training wheels for over a year with no results. After about a week learning to balance, I taught her to ride a bike within an hour. I highly recommend this radio Flyer Flyer bike. Its a lot cheaper than the competition and I cant see any loss of quality. Heres a picture of my son before I told him to put on his helmet.

Nathan got a 10 inch balance bike for Christmas and absolutely would not get off of it.. he rides it all through the house so we decided to get the 12 radio flyer for him. he turned 2 in September and its still just a tad tall for him, unless he has shoes on... then it fits a tad bit better, needless to say he still loves it. its light enough he can pick it up and move it around. i gave 4 stars on sturdiness.. not really that the bike is not sturdy, but the seat tends to keep turning sideways even though it is as tight as it goes.

I get that this isnt a $90 Strider. But having put one of those together recently, versus what I dealt with putting this one together... well Radio Flyer could have made theirs a little better without a ton of extra effort or cost. Ultimately, as a balance bike its going to work very well. So its probably closer to a 4 on value and a 2-3 on assembly. As for why I dinged it, well the alignment of handlebars and wheel while tightening it is cumbersome at best, ridiculous at worst. Strider has this right, you slip the steerer tube from the fork and the shaft from the handlbars together and put a pin through them. That way it will always be 100% straight. Then when you tighten it down you can simply worry about only fastening the parts together. This bike needs 4 hands to be done right and a ratchet set on top of that. You have to hold the fork and handlebars tightly together while turning two bolts and not allowing the handlebars and fork to separate and become loose in the headtube, or have them twist and become misaligned. Not a great design there guys. Once I got it in place it was fine and the bike is very good for what it was meant for. I just wish some extra effort was put in place for alignment and adjustment. Really unnecessarily complex for the ONLY thing that has to be done to put the bike together.

We looked at the stryder bike and thought it was a bit cheap for the price, this one is exactly what I wanted and works very well. Make sure you have the wheel rotating correctly when you build it too, nice little step I almost forgot to read!

Good bike for learning on. Bought it for our two year olds birthday. He is still a bit short for it. It is very light weight. Biggest issue is that even with proper tightening, the handlebars still move around quite easily. Love the added bell!!