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title: "New Bike and Fractured Rib"
date: 2015-04-27
author: Matt
url: https://www.mattwarren.co/2015/04/new-bike-and-fractured-rib/
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# New Bike and Fractured Rib

This weekend I picked up a balance bike for Ada to start playing with.

[![green_sport_1__83411.1405352731.1280.1280](https://www.mattwarren.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/green_sport_1__83411.1405352731.1280.1280-300x300.jpg)](https://www.mattwarren.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/green_sport_1__83411.1405352731.1280.1280.jpg)These Strider bikes seem like a good way to get a child used to biking and gaining balance skills.  It sort of takes the place of ever needing to go with a tricycle or a bike with training wheels.  Once they get good at balancing on these they can graduate directly to a regular bike.

In the process of giving Ada her first lesson and riding around the kitchen table I managed to stub my toe and fall into a doorknob.  I’m fairly sure I fractured a rib :(