Originally Posted by
bragi
My own childhood experience, and watching my niece learn to ride a bike, tell me that training wheels actually slow the process down. Bikes are essentially a pair of gyroscopes, and training wheels just confound that innate realization.
Right...once you're going fast enough, it's difficult to make the bike fall over. It's just difficult for novice riders to convince themselves of this reality.
So an adult runs alongside for moral support and, if needed, a push to get the little rider moving fast enough for physics to take over.