Teaching child to use brakes/gears

[Arch]

Wow I remember how frustrating it was to teach my son how to use his gears. For some reason he couldn't change gear and pedal at the same time. After explaining to him that he had to do both at the same time he got into the habit of changing and pedalling backwards at the same time. This resulted in a jumped chain at every attempt to change up or down.

Should have got him some hub gears....

I can't add any advice for the OP, but the idea of making it into a game sounds good. Find a nice big empty tarmac area, get some big pavement chalks, and draw out some slaloms and stop lines and so on.

 

[johnr]

Her dad has appointed himself chief trainer, so I've passed on your tips. We had a quick lesson in theory in the front room this morning. She's got down the squeezing hard to bring everything to a complete stop.

Gentle pressure, or feathering, to slow down is another matter - maybe influenced by the fact that if we kept rolling we'd run into her little sister who has the safety sense of a lemming .

We're working on my bike tomorrow: cleaning, fitting new tyres and adjusting the brakes. We'll have a play with the brakes whilst the bike's on the work stand.

Thanks again.

 

[johnr]

Her dad has appointed himself chief trainer, so I've passed on your tips. We had a quick lesson in theory in the front room this morning. She's got down the squeezing hard to bring everything to a complete stop.

Gentle pressure, or feathering, to slow down is another matter - maybe influenced by the fact that if we kept rolling we'd run into her little sister who has the safety sense of a lemming .

We're working on my bike tomorrow: cleaning, fitting new tyres and adjusting the brakes. We'll have a play with the brakes whilst the bike's on the work stand.

Thanks again.