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Ryan Mcfarland

Sep 9, 2026

JonHOST
5:13
Mm
5:13
... uh, it's too complicated for him.
5:16
It's not actually sized right, you know.
5:19
But I mean, I'd been, I, I was hundreds of dollars in and many months down the path before I had this revelation that, "Hey, this little bike weighs as much as my son does.
5:29
How the heck is he gonna be successful on this?" And I, I think that's part of it is, um, parent, we, we judge things from our perspective.
5:39
"Oh, that's a cute little bike with training wheels or that tricycle." But if you actually look at some of them, they're, they're completely wrong sized.
5:50
You know, the distance from the seat to the pedals is, you know, 30% longer than the, the kid's leg length and, uh- But we, we don't put all that together because we just see a little bike, and historically kids have gotten these little bikes, and I have a little kid, and so, hey, let's put these two together, and then you wonder why they don't work.

8 MINS LATER

JonHOST
13:46
There's a long way, but Strider kind of sits in the middle of that and goes, "Hey, at two or three years old, actually here's the opportunity for dad to really take ownership." Can you speak to that?

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