What are "bicycle training wheels"?

What are "bicycle training wheels"?

Pat Hines (Traffic Safety Educator & Executive Director, SafeMoves) gives expert video advice on: How old should a child be before riding a bicycle with training wheels?; How do I safely teach my child to ride a bicycle without training wheels? and more...

Bicycle training wheels are an important element to your kid's bike if they're just learning how to ride. So your bicycle, it could be a sixteen-inch bike, it could be a twenty-inch bike, and they're little tiny wheels that go on the back axle that you can put on yourself or you can have a bike shop put on for you. But it give the child the sense that they can ride a two-wheeler, but they've got some helper wheels in the back that help keep balance. And they're very important to check. Make sure that you tighten those bolts and make sure they have contact with the ground. You don't want to have one bike wheel higher than the other so the child feels they're going to tip. It'll make them really nervous and real hesitant about riding a bicycle. So make sure they're evenly touching the ground when your child rides. They're just smaller little wheels that go on the back, and I call them 'helper wheels'.