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.
Very true. Sometime when you have a wheel off the bike, hold it by the axle and give it a good hard spin. Then tilt the wheel back and forth and you will feel just how much the wheel fights changing vertical planes.