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

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I didn't ride a bicycle without training wheels until I was nearly 8.

I didn't until I was 9 or 10. I kept falling over earlier.

I'm 32 and can't without stabilisers.

I was 9 when I learnt with stabilisers.

Older I get more I feel like 1 I don't need to learn cos I can get everywhere I want through walking/the bus and 2 I'm scared to learn cos falls in adults can be more serious and adults/teens/kids over 10 are only allowed on cycle paths and roads not pavements.

I was very nearly 9, it might have been the day before my 9th birthday actually. If not two. Or three.

Yep. Was terrified to get on one, and didnt learn until I was 8, maybe almost 9.

I'm pretty sure I had my first 6-speed when I was around 7 or 8 so I must have learned before that. I didn't have training wheels on when I split my head open on the stop sign and that was on a BMX style bike, not a mountain bike, so that must have been when I was about 6.

I'm 40 and I still haven't learned.... I could never stay on one even with stabilisers. I'm considering getting a trike. A big boy's trike.

Lots of people have them round here.

It's a nice area with less ableism and the trikes look pretty cool actually.

For the cycle paths.

I don't recommend going on the road unless you live somewhere more rural.

I was 5 when I learnt to ride a bike without training wheels, which I think is about average. I liked riding bikes as I was a very active child.

I was six when I finally rode a bike without training wheels. My parents really forced it.

About 6. Or 7 ? The bike was too big for me . It took lots of practice .Very nearly did not want to ride one .

I learned to ride a bike at probably the average elementary-school-age, but when I was 11 I broke my femur. I recovered and regained all my independent mobility but I was too afraid to try a bike again until 20 years later. After many false starts, I was only comfortable enough to take my second foot off the ground when I tried biking at Burning Man in the middle of the desert, where there are no cars, no hills, and no other people.

Edit: I just have to say it feels kind of amazing to say that and not feel like I will be judged as weird or irrational.

I wouldn't mind a trike, or a quadricycle. Ideally one with a limited slip rear diff and tires hard enough to learn to drift with. Actually, I wonder if shaft drive with no differential would work best for that application, like how guys will use spool diffs or just weld their diff together for 'drift missile' type builds.

Drifting might make exercise fun enough to keep me interested.

I’m 50, I don’t know how to ride a bike, I tried to learn, I tried roller skating too, but my mom was scared I would break something. When I was in preschool, I was 3 or 4, I was on a tricycle at school, I was in the parking lot, I fell down, I broke my elbow, I broke the same elbow two more times, the third time, I needed surgery, it never healed right.

I never learned to ride without training wheels due to balance issues. I haven't used a bike since I was 14 or 15.

I 'think' I was six years old, but I honestly don't have a clue when I started riding independently without training wheels. My earliest memories riding a bike are from age 6 and I think that was the age I was taught. My dad was present so I think they were training sessions. I rode a bike until the age of 19. I don't own one anymore.