How did you learn to ride a bike?

sch404 said:
The question "How did you learn to ride a bike?" is EXCLUSIVE. It implies that EVERYONE growing up would have or should have learned to ride a bike. The question should have been phrased in a more INCLUSIVE way so as to acknowledge that some children never could learn to ride a bike or never had the opportunity to do so. Here is how it should have been worded, "If you learned to ride a bike, how did you do so?"
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Oh, give me a break.....

It's assumed that if someone never learned to ride a bike, they'd not be interested in responding and will pass on to another thread that interests them. Most of us aren't delicate little snowflakes.
 
sch404 said:
The question "How did you learn to ride a bike?" is EXCLUSIVE. It implies that EVERYONE growing up would have or should have learned to ride a bike. The question should have been phrased in a more INCLUSIVE way so as to acknowledge that some children never could learn to ride a bike or never had the opportunity to do so. Here is how it should have been worded, "If you learned to ride a bike, how did you do so?"
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And on top of insulting C50, you think you should be able to dictate how people ask questions? You just felt like throwing a monkey wrench into a fun thread because your nose is out of joint. Way to go!
 

sch404 said:
The question "How did you learn to ride a bike?" is EXCLUSIVE. It implies that EVERYONE growing up would have or should have learned to ride a bike. The question should have been phrased in a more INCLUSIVE way so as to acknowledge that some children never could learn to ride a bike or never had the opportunity to do so. Here is how it should have been worded, "If you learned to ride a bike, how did you do so?"
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Exclusive/Inclusive ....this is just plain nonsense.

I posted and I never learned to ride a bike but I posted anyway

I smell a rat!
 
hollydolly said:
You know, I don't actually remember. I never had a bike of my own. I remember yearning as a small child for a trike with a back box like the other kids had...
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.. My brother got a bike, but I can't remember if I learned to ride on his 2 wheeler, or if I learned on my friends' bike, but I do know that by the time I was 9 or 10.. very young that I was able to ride miles across the city on my friends' spare bike along with her.. how we never got killed in amongst all the traffic I'll never know..

I've had bikes as an adult, and when my daughter was a pre-schooler I had a baby seat on the back of my bike..
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That's cool-looking. I've never seen one like it.

"how we never got killed in amongst all the traffic I'll never know.."
Alert drivers?

@C50 - I didn't have a bicycle til I was 9, and it was a used bike, gifted to me and my 3 brothers, so it was a shared bike....except my oldest brother wasn't much into sharing it. He taught me and my younger bros to ride it, though. He just aimed us downhill and ran behind until he could tell we figured out how to balance, and then let go of the rear fender.

I only went about 25 yards. And I didn't use the peddles much, I glided, and I didn't use the brakes to stop, I fell. It wasn't long before I got the hang of it, and I remember riding it to our fishing pond a few times, a couple miles from the farm. But it was an unspoken agreement that my oldest bro was the boss of the bike, so the rest of us didn't get to ride it very much.

I drove my grampa's tractor more than I rode that bike.

Presently, my oldest son builds and customizes bicycles and bike frames as a hobby. He built a bike for me several years ago, after I had an extensive spinal surgery. I ride it now and then. I join some of my son's bicycle club's group rides, and I ride it to the little grocery store near my house when me and my wife need just a few things.
 
Murrmurr said:
..... Presently, my oldest son builds and customizes bicycles and bike frames as a hobby. He built a bike for me several years ago, after I had an extensive spinal surgery. I ride it now and then. I join some of my son's bicycle club's group rides, and I ride it to the little grocery store near my house when me and my wife need just a few things.
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What a great son. I would enjoy seeing a picture of the bike your son built for you.
 
My father taught me. I really don’t know why he taught me because my mother would never allow me or my sisters to have a two wheeler. We had tricycles when we were little but she thought we would be hit by cars if we rode in the street. Luckily, my next door neighbor, who was older than me grew out of his two wheeler and he gave it to me! I didn’t get hit.
 
sch404 said:
The question "How did you learn to ride a bike?" is EXCLUSIVE. It implies that EVERYONE growing up would have or should have learned to ride a bike. The question should have been phrased in a more INCLUSIVE way so as to acknowledge that some children never could learn to ride a bike or never had the opportunity to do so. Here is how it should have been worded, "If you learned to ride a bike, how did you do so?"
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Goodness, bud, that chip on your shoulder must be a heavy load to bear. Exclusive question asking how people learned to ride a bike? For real? Bless your heart. I don't know how to swim... never learned or wanted to. If someone asked how we all learned to swim, I'm not gonna be all offended about it... I'll just either say I don't swim or better yet, not respond at all. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
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Back in the 50's, my grandfather brought home an unusual bike that he found in a home he was rehabbing. It wasn't chain-driven, it had pedals on the front wheel. It was the devil to make tight turns....your outside leg could brush the wheel and down you'd go. I'm not sure why someone would make a bike like that. I don't remember seeing any brand name on the bike so it might have been home-built by someone.

No problem, though, because I unfortunately left it behind my dad's car and he backed over it. Nobody was happy.
 
Remember riding your bike without putting your hands on the handlebars? I got pretty good at it, but mostly it was a "boy thing". Riding nonchalantly down the street with both arms hanging loosely at your side. Cool to the max.

My sister had a "boyfriend" in 8th grade who broke both of his arms doing something stupid (you can assume it was stupid if it was an 8th-grade boy...). He couldn't ride his bicycle the three miles to visit her, so he learned to ride a unicycle. Here he'd come down the street on that unicycle, both arms in casts. Mom asked his mother why she let him do it and his mother said that if she didn't, he'd just think of something more dangerous to do. Boys..... And some girls.......
 
jujube said:
Remember riding your bike without putting your hands on the handlebars? I got pretty good at it, but mostly it was a "boy thing". Riding nonchalantly down the street with both arms hanging loosely at your side. Cool to the max.
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I tried that once... but just that once because I took a tumble and the road rash, especially on my cheek, was very painful. :( I agree it looked cool when other people did it but I wasn't coordinated enough to pull it off. :giggle:
 
sch404 said:
I could never ride a bike because I am an above knee amputee since age 10. My dad bought me a bike so I could look forward to riding it when my leg got better from the bad bone surgery I had at age 6. Only it never got better. They amputated my leg and my dad sold the bike. End of story.
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Sorry to hear about your loss of a leg, I am sure it has presented challenges to you in life, some we can't understand. However I do know people with just one leg have been able to ride a bike.
 
When the bike bug bit me, one of my friends had an old bike with both tires flat and the chain
was just hanging on, not connected. Can't remember how much I gave him for it, but it wasn't much.
My older brother put the chain on, but we never could keep air in the tires.
We were living in the country in the panhandle of Florida with dirt, sandy roads.
I rode it every where I could and we constantly worked on it.

My Dad came home from his recent assignment on a ship in Scotland, saw me on that bike
and that weekend took me to Western Auto and bought me a new Candy Apple Red Stingray copy.
My first Love, without a doubt.

Mom told me later in life, that my dad was pretty hurt that he was away and I had to go through that.
 
My dad bought me a bike with no training wheels when I was 7 years old and then ran alongside me until I was able to steady it myself without falling off or losing my balance. If I remember right, it took me about 2 hours to get the hang of it. My dad said we weren't going inside until I could ride it and it was in early March, so it was pretty chilly outside as I remember.
 
Alligatorob said:
Sorry to hear about your loss of a leg, I am sure it has presented challenges to you in life, some we can't understand. However I do know people with just one leg have been able to ride a bike.
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There was an older man I used to see occasionally in my area of town who only had one leg, but rode a bicycle. One side had the pedal removed and he had a rack for his crutches. He'd pedal with his one leg and he seemed to get around just fine.

I felt a great admiration for the old guy. He was making the best of a situation that would probably side-line most of us.
 

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