I took the kids out for another bike ride tonight, this time to the Winona Lake trails. We rode all the way out to where our geocache is and then back, and just as we were getting back one of Alex's training wheels came off. Broke free and rolled away, disappeared. Worn out, apparently. It had been pretty clattery. I tried to tell him that he could ride without it but he was having none of that. "I hate my bike!" "I can never ride again!" and a near meltdown. I managed to convince him that he didn't have to throw the bike away and we could get new training wheels, but in the meantime I'm going to try to get him to practice riding without them. Good luck to me.