Can you ride a bike?

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Not sure how old I was when I first rode a bike. But I DO know the training wheels came off when I was 6 years old, which is just a little bit earlier than my 2 NT siblings.

I think I was riding a bike without training wheels at age 4. I've been an avid cyclist most of my life, and I'm leaving tomorrow night for a bicycle tour around Tuscany, Corsica and Sardinia.

I can't ride at all. I managed about 3 metres once....

I had a similar experience in Belgium during summer camp with the Marine Cadet Force I was in when I was 15, everyone went out for a bike ride around a country park, but I was the only one who couldn't ride, but no-one knew this until about 5 minutes before the bike ride was about to begin. I told the Colour Sergeant first, as I was also friends with him, and he told the instructors, and they tried to get me to ride while everyone else was out enjoying the ride, and the instructors supervised me for about an hour while I tried to learn, but I could do no more than sit on the seat and fall to the side after about two turns of the pedals. I ended up crying on a park bench about an hour into it due to the frustration and humiliation of it.

Another time I was visiting Centre Parcs (an activity holiday centre located in the woodland) with my brother and his girlfriend, and he tried to get me to ride a bike there that we had rented, but about half an hour into trying I had only managed the 3 metres or so I mentioned earlier, and was again embarrassed, so I took the bike back to the rental hut and got a refund. I wanted to get a trike, but he said that would be embarrassing for me (I think he meant it would be embarrassing for him though , to be seen with me.... I've rented a trike since and rode it around in public and wasn't embarrassed at all - it was great fun!)

I couldn't even ride a scooter properly until a few weeks ago, but I practised a lot and now I'm not too bad on one. Much easier than a bike. I hate them.

That reminds me of the time when I was in reform school and they took us out roller skating. After forcing me to go around once with a person on each side of me holding me up they let me stop.

That must have been embarrassing.

Why can't people realise that it doesn't do us any good when forced into those sorts of situations? It has the complete opposite effect of helping.

Riding a bike almost feels more natural to me than walking.

I know how, but I'm not so good at it I guess. I don't like to ride a bicycle for long because I'm afraid that I'll crash into something or not being able to stop the bike correctly. If I'm riding a bike, I have to be in a large area with few obstecles, even so, I try not to go too fast in fear of something going wrong.

It took me a while to learn how to do it(longer than most NT's) but I eventually got the hang of it. Doesn't mean I'm good at it.

I voted "no", because the last time I tried at all (about age 10), all I could do was ride in a circle in this cement skating area at my (then-local) park. I cannot ride in a straight line--can't balance.

I guess going in a circle worked because I was always leaning slightly to one side.

Never learned to swim, either. I have practiced driving but not for a while. I think I'm on my second or third permit now.

I walk, take the bus or get rides everywhere.

I feel like I had to take slightly longer than average to ride a bike, I think I learned by 1st grade or so, though. I think I was just super determined to, and did. I still ride occasionally as an adult, too. As an adult it's oddly scarier than as a kid when you just don't care and don't know how traffic works.

One in ten children in Britain can't ride a bike according to an article in the Daily Mail but it doesn't mention anything about AS or dyspraxia.

No, I can't.
My father has tried to teach me since I was 5, but I've never learned. Even with training wheels it had been difficult to stay balanced for me, and when they were removed it was even worse. I tried the last time when I was 10, and I still wasn't able to ride it. I had gained a bit of balance in those 5 years (I'm still gaining balance) but itwasn't enough yet to ride a bike, and however I'm not interested in learning how to ride one.

I can ride a bike, also a unicycle.

But I have hardly any motirical problems (some graphomotorical and others as a kid).

I was never able to learn either. I have poor balance. The only place I can ride a bike is in my dreams, and when I have that dream I can cycle really well.

It was an issue in my growing up- graduating from a three-wheeler to a two-wheeler.

When I was around eight-one day my mom took me to the traffic-free parking lot behind a local store- and just REALLY worked on it- and didnt quit- until I was able to ride that two wheeler. Then after that- like the cliche saying goes- "you never forget how". But I couldnt do it before that.

I didn't manage it until I was ten or so, if I remember correctly, and wasn't able to take off the training wheels until I was thirteen.