At The Little Bike Company, we don’t offer stabilisers with our bikes, as we firmly believe they actively prevent children from learning how to ride them. In recent years this has become a lot more widely acknowledged by many parents – although many bike manufacturers continue to fit them. We are still often asked by […]
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Buying a Children’s Bike For Christmas
Lots of families love to give their children a bike as an extra-special Christmas present. At this time of year, with so much choice and cut-price deals to tempt us, it can be confusing to work out what to pick. The Little Bike Company has been selling kids’ bikes at Christmas time (as well as […]
Read MoreTariffs on woom Bikes
We are sorry to have to announce an unexpected price increase on woom bikes as a result of new tariffs charged by the UK government because we import them from Austria. This came as a nasty shock when we discovered it in the middle of January. The euphoria we felt after the Christmas Eve deal […]
Read MoreWhy Our Shop Is Still Closed To Customers
Whilst our physical shop in Hertfordshire has remained open for deliveries and despatches throughout lockdown, we took the decision to close it to other visitors. This remains the case. The shop is pretty small, especially when it is full of bicycles, so it is difficult to safely maintain the kind of social distancing with which […]
Read Morewoom Bikes Two Years On
woom Bikes Update We started selling woom’s range of lightweight children’s bikes in the summer of 2017 in a fairly limited way. We have, we’re pleased to say, expanded the range and sold a lot of woom bikes since then. The range spans one of the smallest and lightest balance bikes available through to top […]
Read MoreFrog Bike Sizes – First Pedal Bikes
How to understand Frog bike sizes and choose the right first bike Frog Bikes offer 2 sizes for a first pedal bike. To understand Frog bike sizes, you simply use the number of the pedal bike model. This number denotes the minimum inside leg measurement of the rider in centimetres. So the Frog 43 (the […]
Read MoreTips for selling kids second hand bikes
Selling your child’s old bike to fund a new bike is a great way to help keep the cost of a new lightweight kids bike down. The bikes we sell on our website are all selected because they are lightweight and they have been designed especially for children, not just smaller versions of adult bikes. […]
Read MoreWoom Bikes UK Stockist
WOOM Bikes are some of the lightest kids’ bikes available; lighter even than some of the better known U.K. brands. WOOM is a relatively new Austrian company specialising just in children’s bike design and manufacture (they started selling bikes in 2013). How did Woom bikes begin? The company was co-founded by bike designer Christian Bezdeka and […]
Read MoreKids’ Cycle Clothing – do children really need specialist cycling gear?
We sell cycle clothing for kids because just like adults, kids want to be comfortable and safe when riding their bikes. The right kids’ cycle clothing can help more kids have more fun on their bikes and that’s our company mantra at The Little Bike Company. We launched The Little Bike Company primarily to give […]
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