Training wheels

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Training wheels, also known as stabilizers, are an additional wheel or wheels mounted parallel to the rear wheel of a bicycle that assist learners until they have developed a usable sense of balance on the bicycle. Typically they are used in teaching very young children to ride a bike.

The term "training wheels" is commonly used in America and Australia as a way of describing the stabilizers' role in helping young children learn to ride bicycles.

Training wheels can also refer to the wheels that serious cyclists use to train on, as opposed to the racing wheels which would be a lot lighter/faster and are generally kept for racing. These can be wheels such as entry level wheels, for example the Mavic Cosmos vs. the Ksyrium line or Cosmic Carbone.