Jan
2012
2012 Early Rider Bikes Photoshoot
It was a cold, cold early Saturday morning with added frost and billowing breath clouds, but simply perfect for our wintery photoshoot. The location turned out to be an inspired choice – Fishermans Path in Formby, Liverpool – a gorgeous forest of tall pines that leads all the way down [...]
Oct
2011
Learning is doing
We heard recently about a new initiative to get children under 6 riding bikes. Great! We’re all for promoting riding and encouraging kids to explore and discover the world on two wheels. And we are avid believers that a balance bike should be a key part of every child’s development [...]
Sep
2011
What makes us so special?
Not all balance bikes are the same. In the last year or two there has been an explosion in the number of balance bikes on the market. It’s great that parents and retailers are catching on because they are catagorically the best way to get your child confident and balanced [...]
Sep
2011
The Alley Runner – our latest balance bike
We’ve been working hard on our new product lines and we’re really proud of the new 2012 additions to the range. I posted earlier on our new pedal bike – the Belter. Now it’s the turn of our latest balance bike – the Alley Runner. It’s deliberately different from our [...]
Sep
2011
We reveal our new lightweight belt drive pedal bike
We’re excited about our new pedal bike launch for 2012. We’ve called it the Belter, and it is a belter. We’ve looked at all the things that make a perfect first pedal bike – not something that currently exists – and created the ideal bike to move on to after [...]
Sep
2011
Early Rider goes down a storm at Eurobike 2011
We’ve just got back from Eurobike (well, a few days ago now but we’re just catching up on writing…) and have begun the process of deciphering the scribbled notes, collating all the business cards and generally catching up on sleep. It was an amazing show this year, much better than [...]
Sep
2011
Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op donates Early Rider bikes to NHS
Our friends at Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative know all about giving back. The onsite nursery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust were the happy recipients of a donated bike from EBC, but as their users are all a bit wee to be cycling they requested something smaller and chose 2 Early [...]
Jul
2011
Victory for the Little Guy!
This week we finally had our day in court. We’ve had an ongoing dispute with UPS since early 2009. In our eyes it was a pretty simple problem to resolve, but they didn’t seem overly inclined to solve it. And as this problem was costing us money on every shipment [...]
Jul
2011
New Early Rider website goes live
So the more observant of you will have noticed that our new look website has gone live, and very proud of it we are too. It’s growing daily and we’ll be adding lots of nice features and info over the coming days/weeks/months.
We’ll be adding a gallery of our intrepid riders [...]
Jul
2011
Meet Lirio – our first sponsored rider
When we first heard from Delphine, Damien and Lirio we were all quite taken by their story. Here was a unique family that was truly free and traveling the world on 2 wheels. They are film makers, photographers, volunteers, free spirits.
Originally from France, Delphine and Damien travelled around the world on [...]










