Fear of Cycling

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I have heard that people with AS either can't ride a bike, or love it and very few are scared of it, or dislike it. I fear it and I don't really want to get into this topic.

However, I would like to know what other people with AS think of cycling or if they can ride a bike. I learn very late (11), and only rode a bike for 3 years before I became scared. I might of tried again last summer, but my bike got stolen, and don't know if I'll try it again, so I don't think I'll get a new one.

I only learned to ride a bike without training wheels at 16 but my poor motor skills which got worse the older I got always stood in the way. I don't ride a bike nor do I want to. I have really bad motor skills.

I used to be able to ride a bike, but I seem to have lost that skill. I've tried testing out some bikes at Zellers. That was a nightmare.

I ride from school (roughly 15km) each day during the school term.

I got asked to stop riding a bike after waking up under a car.

Disappointed there wasn't an answer stronger than Love it. Bicycling and bicycles are my current interest of two years, and in the past, (BMX back in the early 1980s) I typically ride 100-150 miles a week. Aside from getting in shape, it helps me be more emotionally balanced and focused. Riding with a club has forced me to become more social, although it has also made me realize how truly horrible I am at it. In a way that is part of what has made me aware of how I am different, and to accept some of my limitations. I am constantly learning lessons about life from cycling. I even competed in two cyclocross races this year. For the first time in my life at 42 I have become an athlete. Right now I live to ride, even when it's 28F outside and it's just a quick 5 miles to work.

The first time I rode a bike, I rode right into a pine tree.
I love it now though, but only on a trail. I hate riding on the road.

Stupid A-holes once yelled at me for riding my bike on the road. There were two lanes they could've just gone around me, so I gave them the finger. Cars are supposed to share the road with bikers anyway. They drove ahead and then waited for me. I'm paranoid so I checked behind me to see their van speeding towards me. The passenger had the door swinging open to try to knock me off the bike. Luckily, I had enough time to get out of the way. They sped off before I could get the license plate number. I didn't ride for a while after that.

I learned it at the age of three or four, I think ... that's a common time to teach children how to cycle, I suppose.
I still like it quite a lot, though currently my bike is not usable again (having some problems with the wheels for a long time now). At my home, we share a room for all bikes. So I'm scared to get new holes in the wheels again after using the bike 2 weeks. That's what happened in summer 2009.

I ride my bike every day to do errands around the neighborhood. I don't have a car and do all my grocery shopping on the bike. But I ride very slowly and my furthest destination is probably less than a mile away.

I learned to ride a bike when I was 8. I like biking, but I'm afraid to bike on the road because I might fall into the path of an oncoming car.

Loved cycling till last year when my old bike finally collapsed. The new one just doesn't feel right. Nobody can find anything wrong with it, but the shape is slightly different and it's heavier. Even after months of practice, I still want my old bike back again. The new one tires me out a lot quicker, and I can't control it anything like so adeptly as I could control the old one, so I always feel like I'm about to fall off. It just feels wrong. I guess it's part of the Aspie thing that I can't handle changes to something that's been the same for years and years. Though maybe an ergonomist could show me some reason why the frame is less suitable for my body's physical parameters.

But cycling still beats standing about n the cold and noise, waiting for buses and sharing a container with the general public. I don't know how people can stand to do that every day of their working lives.

What happened?? were you hurt???

Anyway, I love to ride, I have no bike now and I live in the mountains now and I dont think I would like it as much going up hill half the time and speeding out of control the other half. I used to ride without holding onto the handle bars. I could even turn the bike by shifting my weight to one side without holding on to the handle bars. Those were fun times riding all over the place and the rush of the wind felt so good on a hot summer day. I am not as uncoordnated as some people with AS, but that is after 7 years of PT. too.

i learned how to ride when i was 30. i assume it was very humorous for anyone watching. i had been a runner and started cross training after an injury.

it became an obsession. i was soon riding 1000 miles a month and became a bike racer. it was the most fun i had ever had. i could hang with the pack on the flats but could not climb very well. made up for it on the downhills. i was fearless. even won a few medals and small amount of cash. raced on 6 continents. had some insane experiences.
i was a happy person for the first time in my existence.

then when i was 39 i was murdered by a drunk driver. drove right over top of me. ended up in his wheel opening. and that, as they say, was that.

would give everything i have except for my companion animals to be able to ride again.

ride long and ride hard. just be careful.

I haven't been doing it as much as I did a few weeks ago - my beloved Bella, a white and red LeMond Reno(which is basically a glorified Trek 1200) is in the garage and it's snowboard season for me. But I love going out as much as I can and I like rides with a little bit of a challenge - I actually enjoy climbing hills.

never remembered what happened, but it looks like something clipped the tip of the front wheel pretty hard and threw me sideways into oncoming traffic. Must have been a pretty hard hit to knock me out while wearing a helmet.

It scared the woman driving more than me. I had a hard time trying to convince her to leave me alone. in retrospect, I was lucky she was paying attention though, I was laying sideways next to the front wheels of her car, a foot or two more and I might not be able to walk.

I was bleeding from the forehead enough to scare a couple of people, but to real damage. Still not really afraid of bikes, just cars.