[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.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[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....

[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.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Mum's minicab.

Yup

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Livia

Mum's minicab.

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yup

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

4 years and counting

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

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

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

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

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

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

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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[Crimson Dynamo]

This was my ride back in the day

The chicks digged it bigtime

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

This was my ride back in the day

The chicks digged it bigtime

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



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.

[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.

[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