• dagronslayer@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I don’t know how this poor advice even got posted. Strider bikes have been a thing for more than a decade. Any googling will point you to that advice over training wheels.

    The actual hack if you don’t want to pay for a strider bike is taking the cranks off, not just the pedals. Cranks can still get in the way, or smack your kids shins. It’s not rocket science to take them off.

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      4 days ago

      Forget about the bicycle for a second.The guy is saying that there are probably all kinds of things in our lives similar to this, we should keep an eye out

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        4 days ago

        So this is a long winded “Think outside the box.” Except that the anecdote used is actually a poor solution.

        Maybe I am just old, do people really need a PSA for this? I guess not everybody grew up watching MacGuyver.

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          I think the guy just made an observation regarding how his kid learned to ride a bike and wanted to share his insights. It is when it is linked and presented on a different platform that it gets a bit silly and sounds like some kind of profound insight :)