How old were you when you learnt how to ride a bike?

[Redway]

7 for me.

[Kate!]

7 or 8

[Crimson Dynamo]

5

[Redway]

I try not to assume anything about when people started to ride bikes at this point. Assumptions can be deadly anyway but you get these kids who are adept tricyclists and you’d just be shocked. Especially if you’re the sort of person who rolls into these topics assuming that certain people don’t know how to do anything.

[hijaxers]

My mother point blank refused to let me have a bike,even though my brother had one, i begged for a bike and NO was the answer. My friend next door was going on holiday for 2 wks and i begged her to lend me her bike while she was away. OMG i never got off that bike the entire fortnight ~ what joy ! .... my mother still wouldn't let me have one, I got a typewriter that Christmas as she decided i should be a typist and best get started.

[bots]

4

[Livia]

I can't remember not being able to ride a bike. I spent hours and hours on it when I was a kid, gone for the whole summer holidays.

[Niamh.]

I have no memory of learning to ride a bike either so I must have been young

[Livia]

Are you already being battered by the storm, Niamh. Looked horrendous on t e weather map earlier.

[Niamh.]

I managed to get to work but it's pretty wild and wet though now, I will have to venture out again at lunchtime to collect my son from uni and bring him to the gym, the things we do.... :skull:

[AnnieK]

I don't remember learning or not riding a bike, I was the younger sibling so always wanted to do what my big brother was doing and my Dad was keen for us to do outdoorsy sporty things from very young- all the kids had bikes and you'd know where everyone was just by the piled of dumped bikes in front of someone's house.

[Livia]

Mum's minicab.

[Niamh.]

Mum's minicab.

Yup :laugh:

[AnnieK]

Mum's minicab.

Yup :laugh:

I'm praying Matthew's life away till he's old enough to pick ME up for once :laugh:

4 years and counting

[Niamh.]

I'm praying Matthew's life away till he's old enough to pick ME up for once :laugh:

4 years and counting

Well, my daughter is 23 and I got just under a year of her having her full licence before she moved out so that plan worked out well for me :laugh:

[AnnieK]

Well, my daughter is 23 and I got just under a year of her having her full licence before she moved out so that plan worked out well for me :laugh:

Don't crush my dreams of a life of chauffeur driven rides Niamh :tongue:

[Niamh.]

Don't crush my dreams of a life of chauffeur driven rides Niamh :tongue:

Sorry :hehe:

[Zizu]

Well, my daughter is 23 and I got just under a year of her having her full licence before she moved out so that plan worked out well for me :laugh:


After watching our teenage daughter trying to keep on the track , reverse and go round bends on Colin McRae Rally I decided to pay for her lessons and keep her away from our car


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[Redway]

Anyone here ever ridden on those cyclist-only zones in Holland? I did years ago and experienced straight-up how much the U.K. was missing when it comes to things like that (we’re a backward island in many ways so).

[Niamh.]

After watching our teenage daughter trying to keep on the track , reverse and go round bends on Colin McRae Rally I decided to pay for her lessons and keep her away from our car


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Teaching someone to drive is a pretty scary experience tbf, I haven't been the same since tbh :skull:

[Redway]

Teaching someone to drive is a pretty scary experience tbf, I haven't been the same since tbh :skull:

Who was the lucky learner, Niamh?

[Niamh.]

Who was the lucky learner, Niamh?

My daughter :laugh:

[Cherie]

Anyone here ever ridden on those cyclist-only zones in Holland? I did years ago and experienced straight-up how much the U.K. was missing when it comes to things like that (we’re a backward island in many ways so).

some of the cycle lanes in London are wider than car lanes now?

[Redway]

some of the cycle lanes in London are wider than car lanes now?

Yeah but nothing on the scale of t’Netherlands, where the road-infrastructure’s partly designed to accommodate for bike-riders (because so many people out there are cyclists). Not like here where cyclists who don’t stick to the woods can be a nuisance for drivers. Especially learner-drivers.

[Niamh.]

Yeah but nothing on the scale of t’Netherlands, where the road-infrastructure’s partly designed to accommodate for bike-riders (because so many people out there are cyclists). Not like here where cyclists who don’t stick to the woods can be a nuisance for drivers. Especially learner-drivers.

Netherlands is ideal biking territory though, decent weather and very flat

[Redway]

I can't remember not being able to ride a bike. I spent hours and hours on it when I was a kid, gone for the whole summer holidays.

I hear that. Once you know, you know as far as bike-riding goes. You might wobble in the beginning but in no time you’re just like anybody else on the wheels. Not like with driving where if you don’t use it you lose it and might have to pretty much start from scratch. There was definitely a phase with me where I was in the learner-process but it couldn’t have lasted longer than about two weeks. And then a good chunk of my summers were set.

[Redway]

My daughter :laugh:

Ahh.

[Crimson Dynamo]

This was my ride back in the day

The chicks digged it bigtime

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JFd1jZHMjOs/maxresdefault.jpg

[AnnieK]

This was my ride back in the day

The chicks digged it bigtime

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JFd1jZHMjOs/maxresdefault.jpg

My brother had a grifter. You could bend the mud flap in at the back and make it sound like a motorbike and he had one of these

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FI0AAOSw4vFaAege/s-l1600.jpg

It was a pretty cool bike......I ditched my stupid girl bike with a basket on the front pretty quick for his bike when he got a BMX

[Dogeatdog]

I must’ve been about 5 or 6 because I remember my first bike having loads of Star Wars/ Darth Maul graphics all over it.

I remember crying my eyes out when my dad took the stabilisers off but once I learned how to ride the bike I was enjoying it so much I didn’t look where I was going and I drove straight into the back of a parked Jeep. :laugh:

[Redway]

I rolled into a sharp gate one summer after plummeting down a hill (there was an issue with my brakes). My two front teeth are still a little chipped at the bottom since that incident but it’s just a tale of life and one worth telling. It wasn’t fun at the time but I got over it and was straight back on it.

[Zizu]

Anyone here ever ridden on those cyclist-only zones in Holland? I did years ago and experienced straight-up how much the U.K. was missing when it comes to things like that (we’re a backward island in many ways so).


Our cyclists in the uk simply ride on rhe pavement .. from 10yr olds to 70 year olds

It drives me crazy


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[Dogeatdog]

Our cyclists in the uk simply ride on rhe pavement .. from 10yr olds to 70 year olds

It drives me crazy


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It’s never really bothered me when cyclists ride on pavements. If it was on a high street or a residential road then I understand but if it’s a busy dual carriageway where the pavements are barely used then I think it’s actually safer for them imo.

[Zizu]

It’s never really bothered me when cyclists ride on pavements. If it was on a high street or a residential road then I understand but if it’s a busy dual carriageway where the pavements are barely used then I think it’s actually safer for them imo.


They do it everywhere in Gtr Manchester

I just worry about pedestrians/dogs / little kids etc


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[Redway]

They do it everywhere in Gtr Manchester

I just worry about pedestrians/dogs / little kids etc


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#pedestrianshaverightstoo

[Redway]

Our cyclists in the uk simply ride on rhe pavement .. from 10yr olds to 70 year olds

It drives me crazy


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I tried that once (I would’ve been 15) and nearly knocked an old lady over. So never again.

[ebandit]

today i ride a ridley 'n cinelli racing bikes.............i ride a lot! it's hard to believe there was a time 'before'

first there was a red push along trike..............then a red trike that pedalled from the front wheel

i was 7 when i learnt to ride a two wheeler..................i was proud to teach myself down the gently sloping lawn of a friends garden

Mark L