Riding a bicycle (I learned yesterday)

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    Does anybody here like to ride a bicycle? If so when did you learn, and do you ride often?

    I didn't know how, so I took our bike out yesterday. Within 3 seconds I fell down. Then again, and again, and again. I crashed it into trees, crashed onto the pavement, went flying over a log into a bush, crashed into a huge flower pot (Which thankfully was okay).

    But after hours of failure, I did it. Suddenly I was pedaling and not falling off or swerving. I ended up taking the bike all over the place, without a single fall. Somehow it just clicked. I took it out again this morning and it was way easier.
     
    Damn that's awesome. I used to have a bike for a very short while as a lil kid, but we had to sell it bcs money was low at the time :(

    Would love to buy on in the future and learn how to ride. Could be v useful for cheaper trips to malls or smth.
     
    I learned when I was 8 or 9.
    At first I could just bike down the driveway, but eventually I got really good and went on long bike rides.
     
    I like to go miles on my bike, I learned at 9-10, I think, and I got good at it pretty fast.

    When I say "miles", I mean I like to ride my bike 5 miles from my house and into town then go to a fast food place and eat for like 30 minutes to an hour. Then 5 miles back, sooo.. Ten miles all-in-all, I guess.

    --Oh, wait, COVID kind of stopped me from using my bike anymore because they won't let me eat in 😡 I mean, Del Taco lets me in, but I'm not going to eat Del Taco all the time, right?
     
    I learned to ride a bike when I was around 7-8. I used to love riding a bike and everyday I would ride my bike on the sidewalk and sometimes my family and I would go to the park and we would ride our bikes there too.
     
    i just learned how to ride a bike earlier this year and now it's 95% of all i talk about!!! it seemed impossible at first but now it's one of my favorite things to do! i've biked just around 1,300 miles since early may.
     
    franziska von karma said:
    i've biked just around 1,300 miles since early may.
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    Oh, that's a lot 😅 I could never do more than 10 to 12 miles a day, how many have you done per day? To reach that amount-- whoa..

    If you did exactly 10 miles per day from May 1st to today (December 12), you'd be at around 2250 miles. (Google: 10 x 225 (225 days since May 1st) )

    -I know the exact date you learned probably wasn't May 1st. 🙂

    XNaut said:
    I learned to ride a bike when I was around 7-8. I used to love riding a bike and everyday I would ride my bike on the sidewalk and sometimes my family and I would go to the park and we would ride our bikes there too.
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    Do you still love to ride? It sounds like you don't anymore- correct me if I'm wrong.
     
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    I came back to the bike during confinement.
    Since then, I have been cycling to work and getting around. It's more environmentally friendly and eliminates the fuel budget.
     
    hurray for living in a bike centric country! don't even remember how young i was when i learned how to ride a bike, it's still my favorite way of transport
     
    That's fantastic! Always fun learning new skills. I have been on bikes since before I can remember, we biked everywhere as kids and I grew up on dirtbikes as well. I have done a bit of mountain biking as well since I grew up surrounded by mountains! Great form of transportation and great for you as well.
     
    Momoro said:
    Oh, that's a lot 😅 I could never do more than 10 to 12 miles a day, how many have you done per day? To reach that amount-- whoa..

    If you did exactly 10 miles per day from May 1st to today (December 12), you'd be at around 2250 miles. (Google: 10 x 225 (225 days since May 1st) )

    -I know the exact date you learned probably wasn't May 1st. 🙂
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    May 8th or 9th I think - I usually do at least 12 miles per day, but there are some days I take breaks (due to bad weather/not feeling like biking).
     
    I learned to ride around my preschool age I think? It's early enough that I don't remember it. I haven't rode a bike in years though, but I have considered buying one recently since my current apartment is less than a mile from the grocery so it's not unreasonable to ride there for my shopping instead of starting up the car and wasting gas.
     
    Came into this thread thinking "Huh, I was just talking to someone about this." Then I saw who OP was.~

    I never learned when I was young, so I ended up learning near the end of elementary school on a camp trip. I was probably around 11, and I had my teacher at the time tell me how to ride. I kinda got the hand of it, but still haven't touched a bike since. The whole thing's kinda been a bit scary since I'm used to all those childhood years of not knowing how to ride one without falling.
     
    franziska von karma said:
    i just learned how to ride a bike earlier this year and now it's 95% of all i talk about!!! it seemed impossible at first but now it's one of my favorite things to do! i've biked just around 1,300 miles since early may.
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    Biking is so much fun. I've been taking my bike out every single day

    There's a nice long road nearby without too much traffic, which leads into a neighborhood. It's perfect.
     
    ZeoStar said:
    Biking is so much fun. I've been taking my bike out every single day

    There's a nice long road nearby without too much traffic, which leads into a neighborhood. It's perfect.
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    when it was warmer and not raining nonstop, I was going out every day as well!! I miss it lmao. If you want an app to track bike rides, check out Strava. it's pretty decent!
     
    franziska von karma said:
    when it was warmer and not raining nonstop, I was going out every day as well!! I miss it lmao. If you want an app to track bike rides, check out Strava. it's pretty decent!
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    literally less than a day after one of my good friends got a bike, they'd already boasted their strava route on twitter lol. it was pretty darn long too. quite impressive.
     
    I remember my first bike. I was six, and it had training wheels.

    I immediately fell off.
     
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