If you have a baby, toddler or preschooler, you’re going to LOVE this giveaway…
We are giving away two Strider Running Bikes!
I’m going to bet most of you don’t even know what a running bike or balance bike is. Well, instead of me trying to explain… I’ll let my preschooler Julia show you.
Watch!
As you saw in that video, running bikes or balance bikes teach children balance so that they when they want to ride a pedal bike, they can learn easily without ever using training wheels.
The Strider Run Bikes are perfect for children aged 18 months to 5 years.
So if you have a baby, toddler or preschooler, you definitely want to enter this giveaway.
But if you don’t want to wait, and you want to let your child start riding right away, go ahead and order a Strider Balance Bike and if you win, we’ll refund your money. If you prefer a Like-A-Bike brand balance bike, order one and if you win, we’ll refund the price of a Strider Bike.
In the previous video, Julia is riding a Mini LikeABike balance bike and her friend Madison is riding a Jumper LikeABike balance bike.
The Strider brand of balance bikes is similar but has a few differences including footrests and an optional foot brake. It’s also priced very reasonably at only $94.99.
You can watch the Strider bikes in action in this video…
The Like-A-Bike brand is the original balance bike and is crafted in Europe. They are fantastic bikes, but they are more expensive. We highly recommend the Mini LikeABike that Julia is riding in the video and the Jumper LikeABike that Madison is riding.
Julia loves her LikeABike so much, that even though she now zooms around on a pedal bike without training wheels, she still rides her LikeABike almost every day — and still cries when she has to share it. (Strangely, she will share any of her other bikes or ride on toys, but her wooden LikeABike she cannot seem to share without tears. She cries, “It’s so special to me!”)
Okay, so back to the giveaway…
We are giving away two Strider Running Bikes!
Here’s how to win:
Okay, listen up everyone, we’re doing this giveaway a little differently than usual…
On your own blog OR Facebook profile OR Myspace page OR LiveJournal page, write a post or a note telling us a story about your first bike or how you learned to ride a bike. Just tell us a little story or tidbit related to you as a little tyke with a bike AND link back here to this post AND link to our store’s Balance Bike page.
Then add your link here in this Mr. Linky. Copy the url of your blog post or your post on one of those social media sites.
If it’s a Facebook profile, you’ll need to add us as Friends so that we can come read your story. We are:
http://www.facebook.com/susan.carraretto
http://www.facebook.com/janice.croze
IMPORTANT: This time, we are going to draw the two random winners from the Mr. Linky entries instead of the comments.
That means we will NOT have your email address to notify you if you win… so you MUST check back here to see if you are a winner and claim your prize. We will announce the winner here on Monday, July 20th.
Remember to watch our RSS feed and/or check back here to see if you won. If we don’t hear from you within a week, you forfeit your prize.
Add Your Link Here
Remember to watch our RSS feed to see if you win.
Mandy, regarding biking with your 18 month old, we’ve really liked the likabike Pink: http://www.greenngreen.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=bugabike&search_in_description=1
do you prefered the nature or the Pink bike ?
Did they announce the winner yet??
Did I miss the winner announcement? I don’t see it.
Are we still waiting on a winner or am I just not looking in the right places?
Today is July 20th. I don’t see a winner announced. Am I missing it?
I have 2 young boys would get lots of great use of this and learn to ride a bike much faster.
Would love to win this!
Love the concept and the bike!
Here is the link to my post: http://audreysnana.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-first-bike-what-i-remember.html
That’s a nice bike…Hope I’ll be lucky for this to have one. 🙂
Looks awesome!
Did my blog, added the requested links, now just having a problem with the link to Mr. Linky… maybe I just need some sleep.
Great giveaway! I’ve been saving for one of these for my toddler!
This bike looks so awesome! What a great idea. I love it!
Awesome give-away… THANKS!
Very nice to have for one of my kids, He will enjoy it so much.
Whoosh! would love this for my son! I signed mr linky loo 🙂
I just linked to my wrong post in the Mr. Linky number 51 spot – but no fear, I redid it in the 52nd spot with the right link. Sorry to make you delete the first one.
Hmm, I love this giveaway, and I love the little tyke bike idea!
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Fun giveaway.
Here’s the link to the post on my blog. Enjoy! And Thanks!!
http://frogssnailspuppydogtales.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-shiny-new-bike.html
I have seen this type of thing on video’s on how kids learn to ride bikes in another country… Holland I think. I would love to have them for my kids. Maybe with luck I’ll win one!
wow. I’ve been wondering what the next step should be after my daughter’s tricycle. I’m just not sure she’s ready for a big, two wheeled bike. But this is the perfect solution. I wrote about my bike memories on a Facebook note and posted it in Mr. Linky.
That is sooo awesome! It makes bike riding so easy. My kids definately need one.
Another great giveaway. My post is up and running. I’m #32. Go check it out.
I didn’t realize my whole name would be posted when I linked. I thought I could change it but it posted a second time. Please delete one of them if you can. Sorry, I’m still new at this.
HOPE THAT I CAN WIN THIS BIKE FOR MY GODSON
I entered! My first time ever using a Mr. Linky. I hope I did everything correctly. This bike would get alot of use at our house with at least two more children to use it!!
Wow – I wish they had a bike like this when I was a kid.
Great concept for a bike! I wish I had had one when I was! Could have saved me from my terrible fall. I would love to win one for my little girl!
wow – that is a fantastic looking place that the girls were riding the bikes!!
thanks for this giveaway!
Great idea for a giveaway. I had a great time writing my post about learning to ride a bike. My poor mom!
What a truly wonderful giveaway ~ some lucky little one will just love it!
My little one is always trying to get her hands on other kids bikes like this! She wud love her own.
I hope I did this correctly (i posted the blog link in the my url line). I created a myspace account last year, but haven’t ever used it before today!
Wow! What a cool bike! We all know how difficult it can be to teach a child how to ride a bike! This makes it a lot easier for both the child and the parent and gives the child a better sense of accomplishment! Here at It’s Hip Hop Baby,
we’re all about seeing kids succeed!
this looks like a lot of fun!! my not yet two weelin’ kids would get some mileage for sure!
My daughter has a skuut like Julia and LOVES it!!
Your giveaways are awesome and balance bikes are very cool. (I’m not entering because I can never remember to check back in at the right time. Maybe you need to do giveaways of books on “how to be more organized” and then I’d have a chance. LOL.)
This is so exciting! I’d love for my 3 yr-old to have one of these! Might have to look into it for a birthday present. Thanks for sharing and offering as a give-away.
FUN giveaway!!!
Mary