They train kids how not to ride a bike! Why balance bikes are better.
Gentle reader, let your mind wander back to the day you first learned how to ride a bike. Who can forget such a magnificent moment?
It’s an iconic scene: The child is nervous on his shiny new Schwinn, but he trusts his father—and his training wheels. On the sun-dappled day they are finally removed, the child is confident that his training wheels have prepared him to ride a bike—that they have trained him.
Training wheels don’t work: Balance bikes teach children how to ride. - Slate Magazine