I've done small of the back before (as a teenager helping my grandmother up a hill, mtb gearing and youth vs a three speed was no contest)
Now I do similar for the kids, though I have now progressed from holding the centre of their bars as they learned to ride, to pushing on the back of the pannier rack - but their bikes are a bit bigger now as well...
In this pic I was just his confidence back up after a tumble... only a few minutes later he was flying along well before he realised I wasn't holding the saddle anymore, and had fallen behind to give him more lateral space.
He really didn't want to learn early.
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A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way. No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
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There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.