Do you want to purchase one new bike for your kids in this Christmas? Find some difficulties during the process? Just calm down – we are here to provide a useful guide which makes you find those tasks easier.

Nowadays, purchasing one bicycle is the common thing parents often use to encourage the kids to spend more time outdoors. Therefore, for various local shops, Christmas is the period of time where they can deliver bicycles to the kids as the precious gift to celebrate this occasion. And one of the best images is seeing those little angles riding their bike around the neighborhood with a happy smile on their face.

So choosing one premium bicycle for kids may require lots of knowledge than you have assumed. Not just the construction and style, parts need to stay connect and suitable to the small and fragile body of kids. Here are some certain instructions that parents should consider when purchasing a bike.

On the market, the bike comes with various styles, the construction and colors for individuals to pick one. For some parents, they choose to purchase one with small construction for their timid girls. In contrast, others prefer the stunning style for aggressive boys to ride for their first learning time.

Actually, you can not say which design or style is “the best”, it just depends on how you choose the elements and different parts for those vehicles.

The capacity of children

The first thing parents need to know is the ability of your child, which means that the bike needs to fit intensely compared to their future vehicles. For instance, small individuals ought to put their feet on the floor conveniently to stop the bike in any circumstances. Or their height must be measured similar to the construction of the bike purchased from the store.

If your child has spent time riding a balance bike before, then the suitable height for their future bike must be measured approximately 1 inch to 1.5 inches. With this height, children don’t need to rely all on the feet to stop.

1. For timid girls, it would be better when having the bike that they can stand on the feet. As a result, control the bike in any circumstances even the hard troubles would be easier.

2. For aggressive riders, especially boys, try not to put them on the bike they cannot stop. Since they are so eager trying on a new vehicle, those bikes can cause some unexpected problems that you don’t want to happen to your kids.

Seat height

To purchase one high quality bicycle for the child, it is important to measure the inseam distance. If you have not known how to measure the inseam of your child, let’s follow two basic steps below:

1. Make them stand against the wall
2. Use one book to place between the legs as the picture below.

Inseam measurement

As mentioned above, the inseam distance of children will be measured based on two steps above. For the bike, it is better when having the toes of your child’s feet put on the floor conveniently. For some parents, they tend to think that the height also depends on the size of tire. However, although designing with the same tire size, the bicycle can happen to have different height for inseam.

With the picture above, you can consider whether the inseam is suitable with your kids or not. Commonly, kids often come up with unexpected injuries when having their body slip off the seat.

Weight

In terms of adults, the weight of the bike is measured about 20% of their total weight. But towards children, it accounts up to 50% of their total weight. So, having the ideal weight for your kids bike is measured not less than 40%, but it also takes lots of difficulties in purchasing.

• It is impossible to measure individually. For the premium bike, the construction of it seems to get smaller, so the weight is also more considerable for parents to measure.

• In fact, it is impossible to reduce the weight of real bicycle. Therefore, there are lots of brand reveal the bike’s weight while others do not.

Brake

Among elements when purchasing the bike, brake is considered as one important thing. For those who tend to ride the normal bike, the standard brakes are designed with normal material somehow make your bike cheaper for you to afford. However, children will have lots of difficulties when learning to ride at the beginning.

Besides, there are many things you need to remember when choosing the brake including:

• For bicycle which does not have the training wheel, then it needs to have the brake where individuals can control and adjust using their bare hand. To check the quality of this, just pull the lever with your pinky fingers. If it is hard to pull, then your kids will find it difficult to use the brake also.

• In contrast, a brake which is too responsive can also lead to various unexpected injuries. Especially, the slippery terrains or grass are the common places where children often fall off the ground.
• One effective method to help your kids get used to using the brake is to have them walk next to the bike and activate their brake at the same time. As a result, they will know how to deal with the situation when the brake has its own problem.

Budget

There is one fact that everything has their own price. Therefore, it does not matter the type and design of your bicycle, try to pick the best one that you can afford to pay the price.

• For those who cannot afford to get the best bike one famous online site or at the premium showroom, just purchase a normal bike for children to practice.

• When kids spend too much time to become familiar with the riding process, then just be patient. Actually, it depends on the construction including the geometry and design of their bike.

• Commonly, parents often make a mistake when choosing a bike which is bigger than their kids because they think the kids will grow up through the times. Unfortunately, this just makes your kids find it more difficult to get used with the bike.

For this Christmas event, parents are considering about various products to give as the gift for their children. And among those, the bicycle is the most common option based on our research. However, purchasing this type of vehicle requires you to understand about its general construction and different parts that suits the body of your kids.