Can you ride a bike?

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Yes, but I learned late. I was 9 while every one I knew learned at 5 or 6. I literally taught myself. We were visiting a friend of my mother's. The friend's neighbor's daughter had left her bike in the yard. They were gone at the time, so I decided to see if I could teach myself. After a couple of hours and MANY cuts and bruises I was able to do it. Once I got my own bike for Christmas that year, I STAYED on it. Rode everywhere, for hours. These days, I'm too old and fat to ride....my thighs can't handle more than about 2 blocks before they give out.

I can ride my bike with no handlebars.
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For about 30 seconds or so, that's all. I've also crashed from doing dumb things like talking on my phone or drinking coffee or soda while riding with one hand on the bars. Extreme.

It probably took me longer to learn to ride a bike than average. But not enormously longer, maybe a year. Same with swimming. Maybe it was just my brute effort.

I picked up ice skating as a kid relatively easily, oddly. I mean, I wasn't great, but I wasn't horrendous either. As an adult I now figure skate, very balance intensive and visual spatial intensive hobby. I think I just apply lots of brute effort to things like that. To me athletic things feel like treatment, as I sorta saw it as my biggest weakness as a kid, but I believe the balance and visual spatial parts of the brain being developed help me think better overall.

I can inline skate, but don't like it as much as ice, and inline feels much more dangerous to me. Ice you glide, inline you feel glued to the ground and I hate the feel.

So through lots of brute effort and determination I taught myself how to do things other kids could do basically automatically. YAY.

It took two days.

On the first day, I could hardly pass a few meters without falling. And I fell many times - could be a hundred.

On the second day, I finally started riding the bike for real. A bit shaky and insecure, but at least I wasn't falling anymore

I learned to ride a bike when I was 7, I had a minibike at 10, 80cc dritbike at 12, a 100cc dirtbike at 14. now I have a 250 cc 2stroke dirtbike

I initially learned around five or six, and didn't really master the two-wheel technique until I was about eight or nine, maybe ten. But now I ride my bike around campus all the time now. It;s kinda hard to steer when you're on a sidewalk where people take up the entire width of the damn thing and walk as slow as possible, though.

It took me FOREVER to learn how, and I can't ride safely at all.

I can ride a bike, but I learned how fairly late (13 or 14). I learned how to ride a scooter first, which I think was easier... except for the time that it tipped on it's side and drug me down the street.

I tried to learn at 5 or 6, crashed horribly and refused to try again until I was forced to learn at age 19 by an abuseve boyfriend who would've beaten me up if I hadn't. I was living in Florida at the time, so everything was flat and it was fairly easy. A few months later I escaped from him and moved back to Birmingham, where there are lots of hills, and couldn't do it anymore.