Developmental Phases

The start of the Strider journey is a Discovery Phase, where your child is simply making friends with the bike. This phase is all about comfort, curiosity, and connection.

• Core Riding Skills: Sensory exploration to understand the bike, discovering the seat, moving with the object, and beginning to learn their center of gravity.
• Broader Developmental Skills: Early gross motor skills (reaching, grabbing, core strength), confidence, and sensory exploration.

Supporting Products:

• Strider 2-in-1 Rocking Bike — Advances introduction to a Strider 12 balance bike by a full year, reducing fear and building confidence through play and exploration.
• Strider 12 Bikes — Their two-wheel design is core for developing initial balance, maneuverability, and control. Adjustable features ensure a proper fit.

After establishing familiarity, the journey enters its core stage. This phase begins with confident, walking strides and ends with the ultimate success point: seated two-wheeled gliding.

• Core Riding Skills: Getting seated and striding (feet in contact with the ground), learning center of gravity, and achieving seated two-wheeled gliding (feet off the ground).
• Broader Developmental Skills: Focus, concentration, coordination, confidence, and independence.

Supporting Products:

• Strider 12 Bikes — Standing footrests support advanced riding, while performance geometry ensures stability at various speeds.
• Strider 14x (for riders upgrading from the Strider 12 or first-time riders who are a bit older and ready for a larger bike): Starts in balance mode to confidently transfer or develop skills on a larger bike. Its design and lightweight nature ensure maneuverability and stability.

Moving beyond gliding, this phase is about taking on new challenges — like standing on footrests, leaning into turns, and mastering control at speed. Little riders truly transform into confident, independent adventurers.

• Core Riding Skills: Standing on the footrests, manipulating the bike around obstacles, navigating varied terrain, gaining speed, and mastering leaning into turns.
• Broader Developmental Skills: Advanced coordination, problem-solving, environmental awareness, and resilience (falling and getting back up on their own).

Supporting Strider Bikes:

• Strider 14x: Converts to pedal mode once balancing and gliding are mastered. Its patented design allows for a low seat height, enabling a low-stress transition to independent pedaling.

This is the exciting transition where kids move from striding to pedaling on two wheels, all at their own pace. They use a perfectly sized narrow pedal that allows for either striding around the pedal or pedaling, ensuring a low-stress, successful transition into independent riding without training wheels.

• Core Riding Skills: Transition to pedaling (stride to gain momentum, glide while finding pedals, then pedal away) and using "dual propulsion" to build skill.
• Broader Developmental Skills: Increased independence and freedom.

Supporting Products:

• Strider 14x: Converts to pedal mode once balancing and gliding are mastered. Its patented design allows for a low seat height, enabling a low-stress transition to independent pedaling.
• Strider 20x: From beginners to experts, this Strider balance bike for adults bridges the gap for all abilities. The 20x Sport is an inclusive, balance to pedal bike and the perfect learn-to-ride tool for ages 8 through adulthood.