Luke Learns to Ride a Bike

Earlier this week Luke achieved a big milestone in every kid's life... riding a bicycle! This was the most painless process for learning to ride a bike. For a few years Luke has had a "run bike" which he used to "scoot" around the neighborhood. In November we got him a new "big boy" bicycle (not training wheels, etc) and we removed the pedals when we bought it so Luke used it as a "run bike" for a few weeks. Luke has felt comfortable and confident on his new bike and asked Dad to attach the pedals. It only took about 5 minutes after the pedals were attached when I recorded the video below, and amazingly he never fell one time! Luke has continued to ride the bike every day since we attached the pedals (5 days in a row at the time of this posting). I'm looking forward to many family bike rides in the coming weeks and months.

Luke's video above is very similar to video in a blog post from Jan. 2011 when his big sister learned to ride a bike. See this link to Maddie's first bike ride.