Age-Learning to ride bike

[shootingstar]

Never expected the number of women (though still small), here who have recently learned to bike. Kudos to you all!

In Denmark, bike riding skills are mandatory and part of school curriculum for children starting at 6 which jives with alot of folks here at least learned to bike by 6 or ..it was deemed to be appropriate by parents to start around that age.

[lph]

Whoa! Denmark is cool!

Okay, that sounded a little dorky, but still...

No. Denmark IS cool. At least to a cyclist it is. They do a lot of things right.

[Koronin]

I voted 5-6 however, I am not really sure. I actually think it was more like 4-5. I know I had a tricycle before I was 3 as I had it before my sisters were born, as I turned 3 a couple of months before they were born. I had a bicycle with training wheels definitely by the time I was 4. But I cannot for anything remember when the training wheels were taken off. I can tell you where all my bikes as a child came from. Actually the same bike shop we just bought my mountain bike at. Who'd thought I'd buy a bike while visiting my parents in Ohio, while I live in NC. LOL The owner is the 3rd generation of the family to own and run that bike shop. I remember riding a lot as a child, actually through at least Jr High school age. I think it's around that time I started having a hard time finding bikes that would fit me properly, which has continued to this day.