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Message: [QUOTE="Patman, post: 1207710, member: 16962"] My son started at 4.5 on a PW50. The deal was no dirt bike until he could ride his bicycle without trainning wheels. Well I found a good deal on a used PW50 so I bought and put it in the garage. He wanted badly to ride it but it sat for several days. He did put in a great effort to get outrigger free but just couldn't loose one (I removed the left one to help prod him along). Finally one Saturday my wife who was going to school was at the library for more studying/research so I decided we'd give it a go. Well he duck walked the bike for 10 minutes, kept trying to get his feet up then finally got it. After about 1.5 hours I took him back to his bicycle and popped off the last trainning wheel. He mounted up and rode away just a mom got home. I suspect wanting to ride so badly and then all the effort he put in to duckwalking the bike until he found his balance helped him find his balance since he didn't have to worry about pedels to make the bike go. Maybe I'm just too hard core or maybe I just didn't feel I had to have him riding so badly that I'd do anything to make it happen. Bottom line for me is that the trainning wheels are a new development for dirt bikes. In this day and age of parents needing to feel their child is ahead of the curve it's just another thing to buy for short term use. [/QUOTE]