Children's Bike riding Articles and Links.
While developing new ideas and products for children and their bikes we have uncovered a lot of useful information that we would love to share with you. Please feel free to search through our article archives by scrolling through the list of articles below.
- Bicycling Australia's Tour Down Under
Summer is just around the corner and so is Australia's biggest cycling event, the Tour Down Under.
- Bike Sizing Chart
A quick guide to ensuring the bike you buy suits your child's age and abilities, ensuring their first bike riding experience is a good one.
- Teaching a child to ride
A good article by the WA Government Department of Transport.
- Choosing the Right Bike
A basic guide to first bike selection for your child's first bike.
- Training Wheels
Learn how good set up and adjustment of training wheels can help your child learn to ride faster.
- Ride Safe
Bicycle safety and how we all need to do our part to promote and teach it to our children.
- CNN - New bike lights make cyclists stand out
- Anthill Online - Pimp your Bike with Led Wheel Lights
- Stuff TV - The next big thing
- Bicycle maintenance
A healthy bike works better, is safer and more fun to ride than one that has been neglected by its owner. Servicing and repairing a bike is inexpensive compared to a car.
- Bicycles/Maintenance and Repair
Bicycle throughout the world are made with standardized, interchangeable parts. Unlike many modern products, the technology used in bicycles is simple enough to allow many riders to repair their own vehicles with a minimum of effort.
- Bike Repairs and Maintenance
Whether you ride a BMX, a mountain bike or a sweet chopper, it's important to keep your bicycle in decent shape, especially if it's your main mode of transportation.
- Bike Safety
Bike riding is a great way to get exercise and fresh air and share time as a family. But before you and the kids rush out and start pedaling, there's an important factor that you need to consider safety.
- Bicycle Maintenance and Repair For Kids.
Most children count their bicycles as their most treasured possessions. It is logical because they spend a lot of time riding their bicycles to discover the world around them.
- BIKE CARE IS EASY!
We're often asked how frequently bicycles should be serviced. It's a difficult question to answer because it depends on how and where it's ridden as well as its condition.
- Why you need a bike parent handle
An Australian first, Push me Home, a product that not only makes childhood cycling fun and supports active children, but makes Mum's and Dad's life easier too. This special extendable handle attaches to seat post of a child's bicycle and helps Mum help the child, who is learning to ride a bike.
- Be Safe Be Seen
Bike riding has long been one of the best forms of transport and fun for all ages. Along with having a correct fitting helmet and adequate footwear to keep you safe there are other safety items you need to think about when riding especially in high traffic, low visibility or night conditions.
- How to fix a Flat Tyre
Bicycle tires flatten when the tube gets punctured either by a foreign object or a 'pinch flat' (a flat caused by under inflation of tires). A tube can be easily replaced, and patching up the punctured or pinch-flatted tube can be a cheaper way to replace a future flat. There are two kinds of patch kits: glue-less and glue.
Riding a bicycle around the city at night can be a perilous pastime with traditional bike lights providing a rather dim reminder of a cyclist's presence on the roads.
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in bicycle sales for use as a greener mode of transport, for fitness and also for pleasure.
I've already got lights on my bike, why do I need these?