Well don't I stand corrected?!! DH is chuffed to hear your responses and now I'm getting 'see?, see?!!!'.

Thanks for the advice on balance bikes versus training wheels too. Will look into the options. I've told DH that he can be in charge of teaching her to ride it and trying to prevent too many massive stacks in the process. My memory of learning to ride a bike is not a happy one - I was terrified and ended up doing myself a serious injury. Think DH can cop the grey hairs for this one!