When did you learn to ride a bike?

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Age 4, and I love it.

I learned to ride a two wheel bike when I was nearly 5. My parents must have been super proud because I didn't learn to walk until I was nearly 2! I love riding bikes... I love the freedom

Dad taught me when I was about 6 or 7. I was used to a 3-wheeler trike, and couldn't stay up on 2 wheels for a while. What he did was to hold onto the back of the bike to stop me falling over. Then he removed his hand but didn't tell me he'd done so.....I didn't panic because I thought he was still propping me up, then he told me I'd been staying up all my myself.

Once I'd mastered the balance thing, I was away. It was as if the bike was a part of me. I was doing fine right up till recently, on an old bike that I was very used to. But it fell apart, and I'm still getting used to the new one. I can ride it, but it's much heavier than the old one, and the shape is subtly different, which makes me clumsy. I've been using it most days for over a year now, but I'm still not used to the changes. I was much happier when bikes were cheap, mundane things. Somebody decided there wasn't enough profit in that, so all you can get now is value-added crap.

I still don't know how to ride a bike. I don't care. Sports of any kind are pointless to me. I had a tricycle when I was 3, but I've never owned a bike, nor have I ever wanted to own one.

Between @ 4-5, we took the training wheels off mom's bike. I remember if I peddled I would fall over, so I would push it up the sidewalk to our front door as it was an upwards slope. literally all day I would get on it, as standing on the peddles and coast down to the crosswalk, and then get off it down there and push it back up and repeat this. If I peddlled at all I would tip over. Sometime in that day I caught on to how to peddle it right. I recall it was close to dark as I was obsessed all day with doing this--up the sidewalk and coast down, hour after hour.

Strange: The girls bike was easy enough to get on as I remember due to the design, but I'm amazed I was able to ride a full size/medium size(?) bike at all at this age/size. I know for sure it was a girls bike and my mother fitted it with training wheels. I never owned a small kids bike.

I wrote the earliest age I learned, 7-8, but really it didn't work the way it works for most people.

I learned at 7-8. I learned again, completely from scratch, at 18. I learned again, completely from scratch, sometime in my early 20s. And then I couldn't do it or relearn it after that.

The expression "just like riding a bike" is not remotely true for me. And in my life, most learning doesn't stick, like that.

Uncanny.....it's not like that with me and bikes, but I learn a lot of things and then have to start from scratch after a sizeable break. Mostly "intellectual" things though.....my motor learning usually persists quite well. Sometimes I wonder if it's a self-fulfilling prophesy thing - I might be failing to pull the original learning back out of the store because I've come to see myself as being unlikely to find it, or I'll stop at the first sign of difficulty. Was cycling ever a positive thing for you, or did you never feel you really got to the point of enjoying it? I really got into it and was cycling a lot, for years, so the learning reinforcement would have been very strong.

I remember my dad taking the training wheels off when I was 6 or 7!

He would hold the the seat while I pedalled and then let go. Well...the FIRST time he did, I went careening into the garage and hit the concrete wall I fell off a bunch of times, but then I got the hang of it! Riding a bike was something I coveted because I just didn't have the skills for sports. I never really got into video games and stuff like Wii is out of the question

I learned when I was 5 years old (no training wheels!) and practically lived on a bike until I was 13-14.
The last time I tried was in my late twenties and it was still good fun.

I always lagged behind the other kids in my neighborhood. I think the average age for mastering a two wheeled bike was about 5 years old. I was being pressured by my parents & peers to do the same. I was about 8 before I could ride without the training wheels. It was just one of the things that took me a long time to figure out...another was tying my own shoe laces. Needless to say, I got teased a lot for being uncoordinated.

I used to ride a bike just fine (could ride all day), once I got the hang of it. However currently, the pain from riding keeps me from wanting to do it often. It's quite literally a pain in the butt. I've tried different seats, padded bike shorts, but nothing helps.

I had decided that I was going to do it so I tried until I did it.

My aspie son seems to learn everything after his sister (who is a year and a half younger than him) learns it. Sometimes I feel like I'm skipping over him because he learns something later than her, but he doesn't mind.

I was either 12 or 13, I can't quite remember but I'm guessing I was about 13. Now I'm still wobbly and I can only ride a bike on a smooth flat surface, like a car park or pavement.

I did enjoy cycling as a kid. Not racing or anything just exploring.

Most things like that for me are intellectual things too. But for some reason bike riding didn't stick.

And yet my mom chastised me for rudeness when I asked her if she still knew how to ride a bike. (It had been over 30 years so it didn't seem an odd question.)

Define 'bike', please.

If you mean a two-wheeler or bike without training wheels like most bike riders ride then no. At 26 I still have not learned to ride a bike. I do have a three-wheeled hand-me-down bike that I can ride but I usually don't because it's big and awkward to move around and I can feel every bump in the road when I'm on it. I may try to ride it again when the weather gets warmer though. I really need the exercise.

I didn't pick an option in the poll because I fall between 'leaned as an adult' and 'never learned'. I got my training wheels off at age 7 after my 5 year old sister and older brother were able to ride bikes. My problem with regular bikes seems to be a mix of not wanting to fall off and having bad balance. As a kid whenever my bike tried to tip over when I was trying to ride it I'd jump off and let it fall so as not to fall with it.

When I was about 5 or so, give or take a year or two. I had no problem at all with it, and still don't today. I don't really like cycling too much, though.

I was 5 or 6. I love biking.