There are several ways to bond and spend time with family and friends, and biking in particular promotes endurance, and appreciation for nature without spending much money. You may want to take on challenging trails without leaving your children or train them early to develop a love for biking. Either way, you would need to get them their own bicycle.

You can find the appropriate kid's bike for roads, neighborhood tours, off-roads, single tracks, and other trails according to the rider's style, age, and height. There are multiple advantages to introducing the child to physical mountain activities like biking and hiking.

Bikes for Kids Benefits

According to experts, your 4-year-old child may be ready to ride a bike for motor skill development since they would have had enough balance, agility, and coordination to ride a kids' bicycle without training wheels. Thus, four is probably a good age to introduce your kid to the beautiful cycling world.

These are the pros of letting your child use kid bikes early:

• Improve hand eye co-ordination and balance.
• Familiarize and learn how to handle an actual bicycle.
• Extend a love for activities enhancing physical fitness.
• Develop mental, emotional, and physical health.
• Go on mini-adventures with other friends on kids' mountain bikes, enriching creativity, imagination, and social skills.
• Strengthen your family bond.

Starter or tag-along cycles with three to four wheels are suitable for toddlers, but most kid bikes for sale can accommodate small children as early as four years old with sufficient adult supervision. What kind of starter bikes should you purchase?

Choosing the Right Kid Bikes

It's tempting to immediately put your child on a beginner casual biking trail. However, you must pace them appropriately to prevent possible accidents or injuries, and proper pacing includes getting a starter bike before purchasing the best kids' mountain bikes.

You can get your children on these starter kids bikes for those below four years old:

• Tricycles - these are three-wheel cycles; they don't require much supervision, but they're not the easiest to handle. A trike is a good starter vehicle but not the best for transitioning to a kid's bike because it doesn't have the fundamentals of balance necessary for biking.
• Bicycles with training wheels - the small clip-on wheels are add-ons that you can attach to a bike. The great thing about training wheels is detaching them to convert back to regular bikes for kids.
• Balance cycles - a balance bike has two wheels and no pedal with the primary goal of teaching the kid how to balance. Those that learn from balance bikes can easily transition to pedal bikes.

Many kids' bikes for sale can accommodate training wheels, especially when they're just starting. However, the downside is that your child may develop a dependency on the assisting wheels. Sometimes, the training wheels might end up lagging their balancing skills behind.

Kid Bikes Sizing

You might be ready to buy your children their first bicycles but don't know which ones to get. Unlike adult bikes, the sizes for kids' bikes use wheel diameters and inseam as the basis. It's important to note that for older kids, the sizing would vary according to height.

You can measure your child's inseam using a thick hardbound book and tape measure with the following steps:

• Let your child stand with feet slightly apart against the wall for support.
• With the book's spine facing upwards, insert it between the legs like a bike.
• Lift the book to ensure it's firmly planted between the legs and angle it parallel with the floor.
• The inseam is the measurement from the topmost part of the book's spine to the floor.

The Bikes Online selection range from 20" to 27.5", best suited for those above five years old. Here are some of the kids' bike measurements according to age, inseam, and height:

• 20" for those aged 5 to 8 years old with 19" to 25" inseam and 45" to 54" height.
• 24" or 26" for those aged 8 to 12 years old with 23" to 28" inseam and 49" to 59".
• 27.5" for those aged 12 to teens with 25"+ inseam and 56"+.

We recommend purchasing kids bicycles to prepare them for adult standard mountain bikes in the future since they might have trouble adjusting to bigger bikes when you buy one that's precisely their size.

Best Mountain Bikes for Kids

Bikes Online offers the best kids' bike for sale with high-quality and durable materials to ensure safe rides in any terrain. The shop's extensive selection guarantees you'll find the bicycle most appropriate for your child's size to ride in any weather.

You can utilize the convenient Bike Finder to check for suitable bicycles according to road type, age, height, riding style, and price range. The customized results will show you the best mountain bikes for kids based on your specifications, and you can even save them for future reference when you want to purchase another one.