Patent ID: 7226067

Claim:
A training wheel assembly to be fitted to a rear wheel of a bicycle for providing lateral dynamic stability of the bicycle, a pair of such training wheel assemblies to be used concurrently on opposite sides of a bicycle rear wheel, each of said training wheel assemblies comprising: an auxiliary wheel; a lower arm having an inboard end and an outboard end, the auxiliary wheel being pivotally attached to the lower arm outboard end; a mounting bracket adapted to be removably attached to the bicycle rear axle; a visco-elastic polymer connector having an inboard surface attached to the mounting bracket and outboard surface attached in series to the inboard end of the lower arm; wherein the visco elastic polymer connector of each of the pair of training wheel assemblies biases the rear wheel toward a vertical orientation and elastically bends as the rear wheel leans during a turning maneuver in response to the auxiliary wheel contacting the ground.