How to choose children’s bicycles?
There are many types of children’s bicycles, such as mountain bikes, road bikes or hybrid bikes. So how to choose a children’s bicycle?
Let’s first understand the role of children’s bicycles:
Exercise is very important regardless of the age. Various training actions will develop the baby’s intelligence and cultivate social skills. Cycling is also a good sport. When riding a bicycle, you can exercise your baby’s leg muscles, the hands need to control the direction, and it can also exercise the baby’s hand grasping ability.
In addition, if you are riding a bicycle without auxiliary wheels, you can exercise your baby’s balance and response ability while riding a bicycle, and can cultivate your baby’s safety awareness! I got physical exercise during the exercise and at the same time enjoyed the fun of riding.
2. The relationship between bicycle and baby’s age
Generally speaking, the suitable age for children’s bicycles is 3 years old +. After 3 years old, babies will have to continuously improve their physical activity ability. While exploring the world, they are also learning how to maintain balance, so that they become more independent and more confident.
Babies aged 3 to 4 years old can choose balance bicycles and bicycles; babies aged 5 years and older can choose balance bicycles and children’s bicycles; babies after 7 years old can directly choose children’s bicycles.
3. How to choose a bike
Choose a bicycle according to the age of the child.
1. A children’s bicycle is small after two years of riding, so the international standard is that two-year-old children ride a 12-inch bicycle, four-year-old children ride a 16-inch bicycle, and six-year-old children ride a 20-inch bicycle.
2. Children from one to two years old, who are between 80 cm and 95 cm tall, ride a 10-inch bicycle. Children from two to four years old, 85 cm to 105 cm tall ride a 12-inch bicycle.
3. Children between two and a half to four and a half years old, with a height of 90 cm to 110 cm, ride a 14-inch bicycle. Children from three to five years old, with a height of 100 cm to 120 cm, ride a 16-inch bicycle.
4. Children from 4 to 7 years old, 110 cm to 135 cm tall, ride an 18-inch bicycle. Children from six to ten years old, 125 cm to 145 cm tall ride a 20-inch bicycle.