Does anyone have one of these for their child/ren?
If so how has it been? Pros or cons ?
Thanks for any info you can share
Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
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Re: Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
Postby Mububban » Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:44 pm
Never heard of it before but that tiny wooden crate is incredibly cute
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Re: Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
Postby gsxrboy » Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:48 pm
Man, it even has MooTow colours to go with the cute crate. Kids these days have it way too good.
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Re: Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
Postby Pax » Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:47 pm
Haha, too true, but I’ll be going with the Giraffe version:gsxrboy wrote:Man, it even has MooTow colours to go with the cute crate. Kids these days have it way too good.
This photo (with the “cow” and the “griraffe”) highlight one of the great features of the “Flip Flop”...the frame is reversible so it works for very little kids (the cow is configured that way) and taller ones (the giraffe’s configuration).
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Re: Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
Postby twowheels » Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:03 pm
I can hear that seat post striking every kerb it is ridden over in the low version.
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Re: Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
Postby Eug1 » Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:36 pm
Had a similar flip-flop style balance bike gifted to us by family friends. From a different brand, but very similar. Got heaps of mileage out of it for two kids. Only thing I ended up doing to it was running some gaffa tape around the edge of the saddle, and giving moving parts a squirt with WD-40 every now and then. It's since been shifted along to a mate to get his kid riding it.
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Re: Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
Postby MattyK » Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:05 pm
I was more thinking it would be smacking ankles, and the resulting noise would be worse. (The bottom bracket of my kids' Likeabike Jumper would occasionally bite)twowheels wrote:I can hear that seat post striking every kerb it is ridden over in the low version.
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Re: Yuba Flip Flop Balance Bike
Postby Pax » Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:58 pm
Was in Melbourne today so picked it up from Cargocycles in Brunswick East and brought it home on the plane with me...OMGosh the cycling infrastructure and number of people clearly just cycling for transport around there left me feeling a bit jealous.
Will put it together tomorrow.
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