Hey, with respect to the wooden wheels, the easiest way to make them is not with a lathe or drill press, but with a router and a circle cutting jig. You don't need to buy an expensive jig, you can just use a piece of 1/2 plywood. Mount the base of your router to the plywood and use the plywood as an "arm" that has a pivot point (a nail or screw). Then just rough cut a circle with your jigsaw and cleanup with the router and jog, or just use the router and jig to do the actual cutting.

You could also use a "Rotozip" which has a circle cutting jig available for it as well, though it will be a bit slower than a router (same principle).

Thanks for the plans! I'm going to make a pair of balance bikes for my 2 year old twins.

Thanks for all the effort that went into your description and plans.

My grandson is 4 months so I have some time to build one for him.

Any later updates you have please pass along as I will if I come up with any brainstorms.

Regards and thanks again.

Jim

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Hi folks,

we are very excited about making our little girl the bike from your plans. I am just printing them off and wantig to check what scale they should be. When I print them at 100% on A4 they come out with a wheel 11.5" in diameter is this correct. In your commentary you talk about a 10" wheel?

thanks for your help-and the plans!

Bec

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Santa NEVER wraps presents... he doesn't have time, not to mention how unfortunate it would be if he just happened to use the same giftwrap as mom & dad. They are ALWAYS set out and ready to go. Some small things can be left in their UNWRAPPED boxes so they stand out and don't get lost in the shuffle, but the biggies should always be assembled, batteries loaded, ready to go!

The added bonus is mom & dad get to "test" them beforehand to make sure they work right :)

LEGOs!!! That is so exciting and so cool that his inheritance is in LEGOs :)

yeah, I've had kids longer than you....after 2 or 3 years of that mistake, it usually starts to kick in!

Thx for the shout out