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Old 27-09-2023, 01:48 PM #26
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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.
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This was my ride back in the day

The chicks digged it bigtime

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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
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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.
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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.
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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

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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.
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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.

They do it everywhere in Gtr Manchester

I just worry about pedestrians/dogs / little kids etc


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

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