We would have been lost without our bikes as kids - we rode them everywhere! We rode them all weekend and would make jumps and tracks to ride around. Out three now all have bikes (Paige got hers this morning for her birthday) and they ride them heaps around the farm. Poor old Paige had to run along behind them LOL, but now she'll be out there with them.

I think it is really important for kids to have one in a way as it's another skill set they have to learn to be able to ride one - first with training wheels and then without.