When did you learn to ride a bike?

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I think I was about 7 and learned it on my own. I just kept on trying over and over until I managed it.
I kind of like it, especially road cycling.

Age 17.

I had to teach myself, and I only did it because my grandmother gave me a bike for a birthday present.

As a kid, I didn't understand how to make the thing go. I couldn't coordinate my feet to push off at the appropriate time, and the sensation when I lost balance was horrible. Also, my mother yelled at me because she "wasted her money on a bike I never ride," although I never requested one, and my father would scream at me for being a coward and "making a bunch of little, stupid mistakes."

I hate bikes.

I didn't learn to ride a bike without training wheels until I was 12 1/2.. kind of embarassing I was that old. I like to bike ride sometimes - it can be fun, though I don't know that I feel completely balanced or comfortable on a bike.

I think I was twelve or maybe thirteen. I know I was done with the sixth grade by the time I learned to ride a bike, though.

It didn't take me as long to learn as I thought it would. The funny thing is, I couldn't have done it a year before, could have tried for as long as I liked and wouldn't have gotten it; but when I learned to ride a bike, it was more like I was just ready to learn than like I had been practicing for a long time.

It's like the way if a baby isn't allowed to walk until they are past the age when they would have learned--like maybe they are being carried all the time--they usually learn to walk in short order once they are put on the ground and left to experiment. They were simply ready to learn. For me, riding a bike was like that.

I have coordination issues too.....I kept falling and hurting myself when learning to ride a bike as a child so I stopped trying/my parents gave up teaching me. I learned when I was 13 but was not very good/could not turn etc. and then lost interest in riding. When I was an older teenager my aunt finally taught me to ride a bike properly but I do not own a bike have not since I was a child) and might have lost that skill by now as well.

I enjoy rollerblading though….although others say I look really clumsy and awkward on rollerblades……… .so I think I might enjoy bike riding if I had a bike and practised it.....it would be embarrassing to relearn bike riding at 26 years of age though……….

Quite early with training wheels. Stopped using training wheels sometime after 7 years old (I don't have a memory, other than I know I lived where I do now because I remember the ground and I remember when I moved to the place so it must be after I was 7). I remember falling and being scared. I liked to bike in circles.

I think that is pretty typical. I was late with shoe-tying, swingsets on my own, swimming, dressing, bathing, etc on my own however.

I learned to ride a bike when I was 8. My parents started teaching me when I was 5 or 6, but I kept falling down and eventually got too scared of falling to really try. Finally my dad got the idea to practice in an empty parking lot instead of our tiny, bumpy driveway, and that helped a lot.

I like riding my bike. The problem is actually riding it somewhere. Cars, traffic lights, stop signs, and all the other rules make me anxious. I'm mostly afraid I'll fall into the path of an oncoming car.

I never learned to ride a bike and I am almost 21. I would like to though, for I do love the dutch city style bikes.

I got my first bike when I was 5. I remember being terrified at the thought of riding it. I never had any training wheels because my father said they were for sissies. He took me to an empty parking lot and told me to get going. I tried and tried but fell dozens of times, scraping my arms and knees. He just said keep trying, so it was either learn how or not have any skin left. Through the use of cruelty, I am a great bike rider now.

I was older - 7 at the youngest, 10 at the oldest.

This wasn't due to much more than a. my father never let me play outside or with other kids so until my parents devoiced when I was 7 bike-riding was out of the question, and b. we were poor...I was given a rubbish second-hand bike form a girl at school, she was well-off so had gotten two bikes for her birthday, her mother saw me as a charity case, the daughter was annoyed her mother had given her bike away even though she didn't need it, and she was even more annoyed when she found out it had been given to me. It was an old style 3 gear bike, totally unfashionable, in denim blue and towards the end of it's life it made a noise like chitty chitty bang bang...well, without the 'bang bang', I loved that bike and it was my first idea of 'charity = good'.

I learned from a girl a few doors down - no one was friends with her either as her and her family smelled bad, I had lots of smelly friends as a kid as no one else would talk to me, but she was fantastic and much older than me so it was like having a big sister - she did the whole 'You just peddle and I'll hold on, I promise not to let go' then she'd let go.

I loved riding my bike, riding all over the place, getting places faster, teasing boys then cycling away, singing 'Mr Sandman' - not sure why we did this, we just DID, maybe we thought we were in 1950's America *shrugs*

I'd love it as an adult as there aren't many places to walk round here to get out the house and via bike there are a good few places I could go, but I can't afford to buy a bike...plus I'd not feel safe riding on the road, but riding on the path you'd have people who'd be annoyed that you're not on the road or/and people thinking you're 'special' for still wearing a helmet when not on the roads. I don't think you can really get away with not riding on the road if you're an adult, but roads are far too unsafe for bike riders.

That's weird. I can't see why anybody would get annoyed at a question like that.

I was 9. I had problems with learning how to move the pedals. I couldn't coordinate my legs. But finally I've learned and now I love riding my bike.

I was 5, but I did fall off a lot in the beginning. I actually busted my knee and it was bleeding and everything. I told my dad I was NOT getting back on the bike but he forced me too. I'm glad he did.

When I was getting ready to graduate from middle school me and my friend had a bike race on a gravel road leading up to a bunch of houses. That was a bad idea. I couldn't figure out how to use the brakes cuz I was only used to the ones on the pedals. But this bike wasn't mine and had handbrakes. I ran directly into somebody's chain link fence. BAM! So, in my graduation pics, I had a huge yellow bruise on my arm!

I cannot ride a bike in the street or sidewalks now though I tried recently and nearly ran into someone. So I'll only do it on trails.

I'm not sure really, I think I was on a tricycle at 2-3 and on a regular bike somewhere around 3-4.... again, I'm not completely sure, I don't remember a time in my life where I couldn't ride.