Strider Blog http://www.stridersports.com/blog The Official Blog Of The Strider No Pedal PREbike Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Striders on Strollers…This is Easy! http://www.stridersports.com/blog/striders-on-strollers-this-is-easy/ http://www.stridersports.com/blog/striders-on-strollers-this-is-easy/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:21:09 +0000 Ryan McFarland http://www.stridersports.com/blog/?p=521 Strider PREbikes are SO light and easy to carry around. Have a look!

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kissing-striderRemember that bike I had to send to Hawaii priority mail (cause you guys won’t drive to the post office for me to do parcel post – lol !!)  well he got it early and the grandma sent me this cute but fuzzy picture of him kissing the bike saying he loves it so much!.  He is also the one that I talked out of getting the mini glider – which was good as he would have been much too little.  He is turning 2 in about a week.  Thought I’d send it to you.

-Stacey Stover

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New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson

Recently, the Mayor of New Rochelle, New York showed up at Beth El Synagogue Center’s Nursery School to talk about fitness and exercise with students and parents.

The nursery school had just purchased new Strider bikes for their 3 and 4 year old classes.

Check out the entire story on The Talk of New Rochelle.

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We think JoJo looks like Luke Skywalker riding his speeder through the forests of Endor.

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the Strider Running Bike offers some wonderful advantages. First of all, it’s very small; so very young children can start learning long before they would comfortably fit on even the smallest standard bikes. Also, the bike is so lightweight that young toddlers really don’t need much strength to push themselves along. Learning to balance is really the key activity. I also like the “stiffer” steering that comes standard with the bike. This makes is easier to handle. But as the bike is ridden more, the steering loosens up. Very ingenious!

You can read the complete review here.

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The video shows some great technique, including braking by dragging feet. We’ve found that most kids this young don’t have the strength yet to operate mechanical foot or hand brakes. That’s why Striders don’t ship with brakes. The optional foot-brake is really useful when your kids are a little bigger and want to start practicing skids. But, for just plain stopping power, nothing beats the good ol’ Fred Flintstone method!

The other great thing about this video is you can use some of the points of reference (railings, people walking, etc) to get a feel of JUST HOW SMALL THESE BIKES ARE!

UPDATE: I just want to repeat…the song on this video has the F-WORD several times at the end.

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at Aqua Arena in Tokyo from July 3 -4  http://www.strider.jp/news/index100601.html (here’s an English translation from Google.)

STRIDER KIDS CLASS (total of 160 attendants/kids) including the beginner Class for a
total of 90. The actual breakdown of this race was divided in the following category:

Age 2     class
Age 3     class
Age 4-5  class

As you can see from some of these fun videos, the event was a huge success.

The organizers asked us if in the future, guest riders from the US can participate in the race in Japan and vice versa. Any ideas? Let’s make it happen!

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]]> http://www.stridersports.com/blog/strider-cup-japan/feed/ 0 Learned to ride Before 3rd Birthday – No Training Wheels! http://www.stridersports.com/blog/learned-to-ride-before-3rd-birthday-no-training-wheels/ http://www.stridersports.com/blog/learned-to-ride-before-3rd-birthday-no-training-wheels/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:04:29 +0000 Ryan McFarland http://www.stridersports.com/blog/?p=441 Annette Sweigart sent us this comment:

“I never write reviews but I couldn’t resist this one. I set out less than two months ago to buy my 2 1/2 year old son a bike (with training wheels). I discovered the Strider online and ordered it thinking that with the money back guarantee, we had nothing to lose. He’s been riding it for the last 6 weeks, not even every day. Three days ago we put him on a two wheel bike, no training wheels! Check out the video taken yesterday on his third day riding a “big boy bike”. Trey will be 2 years, 9 months old tomorrow. And he’s riding a bike with no training wheels! Amazing–thank you!”

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“I have twin 3 year old boys and we just bought Striders for them about two weeks ago. It is the best money we have ever spent on them! These bikes have changed the way we spend our evenings and made exercise a part of every single day for all four of us. I have attached three fun videos. It is obviously not Christmas but I think it speak volumes about the excitement kids feel about your bikes that one of my boys made up a song “I got a new bike for Christmas!” just because he felt so much joy over getting it!

Thank you for this wonderful product, I recommend these bikes to everyone I know. I first saw them on The Good Stuff Guide recently…”

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