Originally Posted by Blue Order
Look on eBay under cycling. Enter Trek as a search term, and when you get the gazillion Trek entires, go to the category
"kid's bikes"
For example, there's this
12" Trek on there now that's perfect for learning to ride...
By the way, I learned when I was around that age, first with training wheels, then without. My parents took the training wheels off, walked behind me helping me balance, and kept saying "good, good," but the funny thing was, at some point their voices were
too far behind me. I looked back, and they were about 20 feet back-- I had been balancing without them after they let go....
Bullocks!
Go to the thrift shop find a fixer upper, let the kid learn to wrench too.