Riding a Bicycle.

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i think I was later than everyone else with only two wheels. I remember getting frustrated and just asking for the side wheels to be put back on. I eventually got it though. i ride my bike a lot now because its simpler than driving a car and looking for parking and paying for parking and riding in metro cars and smelly busses packed full of people, etc.

i had the most trouble with the most popular female playground activities. I could not jump rope more than a couple times in a row until my teens, and I still can't hoola hoop.

I had a hard time initially, and was delayed a couple of years, but a friend showed me a short-cut to starting. No problems since.
Never could do ice skates/skateboards. Even go-carts were a "NO GO" because of poor vision & sensory overload.
Bike riding is still one of my favorite excercises.

Sincerely,
Matthew

Cycling was the best thing that ever happened to me. I got into it to ride with my now xwife who was worried about gaining weight, and soon I got obsessive about it. I told myself if I could ride 20 miles in an hour I would buy myself an Italian racing bike. It took a year. Plus, I met others out riding hard, who were much younger than me. They taught me many things, and I ended up racing bikes for six years. Riding in the peleton in a bike race is like... flying. And being in top notch physical condition aerobically is also a life changing experience.

Stick with bicycling... there are many cool things about it. You are by yourself even if you are riding with others.

I got a bike when I was 7, and I didn't learn to ride without the training wheels on until I was 10. I still couldn't really ride it because I'd get out of breath too fast. Not that there was any place to ride a bike anyway, except up and down the driveway.

I couldn't even balance on a moving bike with training wheels on. That is how bad my balance is.

I learned to ride a bike when I was 10yrs. I got teased a lot as a kid because I couldn't ride a bike without learner wheels. I was the only one in my class who couldn't. Bikes were a big thing at my school and the class used to go on cycling field trips, but I had to stay behind since I couldn't ride a bike "normally".

So when I took off on my own and could remove those darn learner wheels, it felt really good!

But I'm not confident on the road and I can't bike far anyway as I can't sustained my energy for long (I also have ADHD-I and my old therapist thought I had SCT).

I also suffer from sensory overload and when that happens I panic and get all wobbly and have fallen off a few times. Biking actually brings out the worst in my conditions and if I ever need proof for myself that what I have is a disability I just need to go for a bike ride!

I don't drive either, so it's annoying that I have so much trouble with cycling.

Training wheels really don't work.

Try Smart Gear Balance Bike

I remembered that a best friend tried to teach me how to ride on her bike with training wheels, and it was ridiculous. It wasn't until later on a regular bike that I just let coast down a hill without pedaling that I finally learned my balance, and then adding pedaling and steering was a snap after that.

Riding a bicycle was one of the motor difficulties that I did not have despite being an all-around clutz. It only took me about 15 minutes to learn. Other motor skills that I learned quickly were skating and skiing. These speed + balance + rhythm sports seem to be my thing. It is the ball-and-stick sports and corresponding motor skills and hand-eye coordination that I really suck at.

While I move very slowly and can be quite clutzy during normal, every day walking and moving about, I've always been quite good when it comes to athletic coordination. I learned to ride a bike in a day.

My uncle taught me how to ride, by pushing the bike along from behind as I pedaled down our very gravely road. He let go, I fell, and busted my knee open. He went inside to get some anticeptic and bandages...I got back on the bike, started pedaling, and that's that.

While I'm generally clumsy, bad at skiing, skating, I learned to ride a bike at about the age of 5. My father took off the training wheels and I could stay in balance (my twin sister did the same). I remember that day perfectly when it happened, I enjoyed it so much. However, I can see how it takes a lot of effort from me to be attentive enough to cycle safely in the city or on the mountain slope. I don't think it's easier than driving. Quite the contrary. Driving a car seems to be much more intuitive to me than cycling, which generally requires about three times the attention of driving.

I was riding a two wheeled bike by the age of 5 and I didn't have the best motor skills either.
I learned to ride a bike early but had trouble with motor skills that involved the use of hands.

I learned at age six. My parents pushed it. I was honestly happy when I saw I was riding on two wheels. It took me a while to ride on two wheels. I am not sure how many weeks it took me or months but it seemed like a really long time. But I never understood how putting a child on a bike and having them ride off by themselves on two wheels teaches them and that made me not want to go without training wheels. Honestly if my parents kept pushing that on me, I would have stopped riding my bike due to trauma and maybe never learn to ride and that would have given kids another reason to bully me for not being able to ride a bike. To me that was the most scariest thing people could do to me and I would scream. Holding onto the seat as they ride is different than pushing their bike away with them on it. I learned with training wheels than the scary way.

My son, now 10, refuses to take anything to do with his bike and has a scooter now instead, which he enjoys. He did try with his bike, but could never ride it without the stabilisers and even then only on a very flat, smooth surface. The scooter suits him much better and they're very popular here so he's not the odd one out for not having a bike.

Apparently, I was awesome (4). Training wheels off within moments. I broke my first bike from a jump when I was five.

Being too radical made a doctor recommend that my parents stop me from doing such.

I've never been able to ride a bike.....not that I don't know "how", but I just can't quite master balancing with two wheels.