Did it take you longer to learn how to ride a bike?

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No.

But it did took longer to brought me a bike.
I started at 9-10. Took out training wheels in about more or less a month and then go beyond that.

Now I'm just severely out of practice.

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that wasn't very hard, but i couldn't learn to swim for years
i couldn't do most (all) girl games, ball games, any ph-ed i ended as a crying mess
dancing in hs was the worst - i couldn't ---at all
- i would get the 'just good enough' note for trying

but i could play these things with younger brother,
maybe there's need for more time to process, and i was in class with older peers,
i used to think something basic wasn't told

My Aussie father wouldn’t allow me to ride a bike(my 4 brothers all built bikes and were free to ride). When I was ten, I had a friend who was moving from Brisbane to Melbourne ... she gave me her old bike as a leaving gift(she had been given a beautiful new bike). I taught myself to ride by propping it up against the back fence and pushing off repeatedly over a couple of weeks till I had the confidence to take it out on the road. Didn’t look back after that! Rode daily and loved the freedom! It did take alot to convince my father(autistic) that I should be allowed to leave the yard(very overprotective and of the belief that girls/women belong in the kitchen and don’t need an education or to ever work).

I learned to ride a bike later than my peers but I had little desire in ridding a bike. It was something that my parents wanted me to learn & do instead of something I wanted to. I HATED anything sports related. It did not help that there was no place to ride a bike where we lived. We lived on a busy highway with no intersections anywhere close so the cars went fast. There was no sidewalk on side the road & instead had steep ditches on side the road. Plus there was no place to go that was close by. Ridding a bike back & forth on our driveway was boring.