When did you learn to ride a bike?

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It said that people with AS learn to ride a bike later, so when did you learn? Oh, and please comment on if you LIKE bike riding or not? I have seen lots of people on here saying they like it.

I'm a bit scared of it to tell you the truth. (Of course, some may say I'm afraid of everything except pain)

I'm mostly scared because of cars on the street. They make me very nervous and some of those drivers aren't very responsible. On EVERY SINGLE BIKE TRAIL here, people will let their dog off-leash and they ALWAYS chase me and I am worried that they will do something that will cause me to fall off. Even if they are well-trained, and the owner they declares it, they STILL end up bothering me.

I wouldn't mind if it weren't for aggressive drivers and dogs.

I didn't learn until I was 11 because:

1. I was a bit scared of it, I don't know, the idea of riding a 2-wheeler just freaked me out

2. I thought my parents would probably so 'no" if I asked

Last edited by ocdgirl123 on 22 Feb 2011, 8:12 pm, edited 2 times in total.

learned when I was 7-8 years old. not scared or anything. and my family couldn't afford one for me at an earlier age, they bought me an NES and SNES instead XD

My experience is quite typical. I learned to ride when I was maybe 5. I then rode my bike daily, often for hours, until I was 12 or so.


Maybe I wouldn't be so old and fat and grumpy if I still did that.

Long story short, I started at 6 broke my arm and dislocated my knee cap and quit. While I can ride a bike now I don't like to.

I learned to ride a bike around the time I was 9 years old. I'm not sure that was very late, but it was alot later than all the other kids I knew. I don't think I ever became as good at it as others. Other kids would ride fast and try stunts, while I enjoyed riding a bike slow just for fun. I have always enjoyed riding bikes after I learned though.

The thing is, I know how, but I just can't.

Some of my childhood memories are pretty vague. I thought it was 3 or 4, but now that I think about I remeber still being on training wheels during my school ages... I'm so confused!!

I bought a bike when I was 16 and had to walk about 3 miles home with it because I wasn't confident enough to ride it through the traffic. I got my first motorbike when I was 17 and haven't been without one since, I was 53 yesterday btw.

I was six when I learned. My parents started to take off my training wheels and have me ride and then they started to put only one on and then raising them both off the ground. Then we would take them off again and see if I can go on two wheels and one day I did. I felt like everyone else.

Happy belated birthday!

I learned at 7-8. When my parents took the training wheels off, I think the first thing I managed to do was ride into traffic, use the brake, flip myself over the handlebars, and land right in front of a car.

I ended up taking my bicycle apart one day, I'm not sure why.

My second bicycle was a ten-speed. I actually enjoyed it a lot until the day I got sucked into a grate. I don't think I processed it as a grate, I just tried to line my tire up with the lines and the wheel went right in and got bent totally out of shape.

My third bicycle got hit by a car while I was bicycling past a fast food restaurant. The person driving had no reason to pull out (there was no break in traffic) but the motorists in Florida seem to loathe bicyclists and pedestrians.

Most of the time I was fairly safe about riding. I don't recall riding into traffic that many times. Bicycles did make it easier to wander a bit farther afield from home and occasionally get into more trouble.

I've always had coordination issues so I eventually mastered bike riding at 16. But I haven't been on a bike since so I've probably lost that skill. My balance is worse now because of a failing vestibular system, cause unknown.
I was quite the skateboard when I was 14 though.

And no, I don't like riding bikes. It's another thing that makes me abnormal. My motor skills are so poor these days.

My brother (well one of them, the one i like) taught me to ride when i was 4 or 5.

I learned when I was 9, and it was only because my parents made me. I always thought it was strange. They made me just go sit on the bike for 30 minutes every day. I would get bored and start rolling it around with my feet, and eventually I was able to ride it. I'm indifferent to bike riding now, I do like riding motorcycles though

I never managed it, and I grew up in China. You can imagine how much of an oddity I was not riding a bike in China. I walked and ran to everywhere. The upside was I developed very strong legs and lungs and good endurance. The downside was, well I was slow and couldn't go to places with other people too easily, because they're all going on bikes.

My dad made learn because my brother who is two years younger than me was already riding his bike without training wheels at age 4 and at 6 I still had the training wheels on. I remember falling over a lot and crashing into park cars. It the reason I do not drive. I am afaid I will zone out and crash into someone's rear end or god forbid a pedestrian.

It also took me a long time to learn to walk when I little. But I was talking early.