Leg&Go
A bicycle that grows up at roughly the same speed they do.
Leg&go began in Cēsis, in Latvia, with Egons Garklāvs, a mechanical engineer of some thirty years' standing and grandfather to a good many small cyclists. People will tell you nobody can reinvent the bicycle. He did it anyway, in Baltic birch plywood, and the result won the Eurobike Award in 2015 and was named urban bike of the year at the Design & Innovation Awards in 2019, which rather settles the argument.
The idea is simply one bike for the whole of early childhood. It starts at around six months as a rocking elephant, becomes a balance bike, and with a few add-ons turns into a tricycle, a downhill racer with a footrest brake and finally a pedal bike with a belt instead of a chain: eight ways to ride in all, up to about six years old. The curved birch frame has a little natural give in it, which makes for a smoother ride over the lumpier bits of the park.
Egons now works alongside his son Atis, with the grandchildren employed as test pilots on very generous terms, and the family has added wooden Pikler triangles, balance boards and balance beams for climbing practice on wet afternoons.
For more for small people on the move, have a browse of our sport and camping + hiking collections, or carry on to gifts for baby + kids. There are more businesses like this one in our Family Owned collection, and more from Latvia and its neighbours in our Baltic Brands collection.
