So how did you learn to ride a bike?

[kimct]

I have only one memory of learning how to ride a bike, but I don't know if that was the only lesson or not. My dad was teaching me (he passed when I was 8, so I was younger than 8), in our back yard and I jerked my head back and hit his face. He had skin cancer really bad, and it was on his face...I'd hit the cancer and made it bleed I'm sure that's the only reason I remember that particular lesson.


I remember my oldest 2 kids learning though! My son learned at 5 and he took some teaching...I guess with him being the first kid I'd babied him too much so he was scared to fall and I was scared of him falling. Took him awhile.

My daughter, who is 2yrs younger taught herself within minutes when she was 4. She hopped on her cousin's bike that was too big for her and pretty much just went. No one had ever tried to teach her at all. She's a tomboy and not scared of anything though!

[GLC1968]

My first bike-related memory was watching with envy all the 'big kids' tearing around the neighborhood on their bikes. I had a training wheels on my bike at the time. I remember wanting to learn how to ride fast like them and one of them offered to teach me, but I was too chicken.

A couple of years later, I remember riding in the parking lot of the local strip mall on a Sunday back when all stores were closed on Sundays. All I remember was making a sharp turn and hitting one of my pedals on the ground. The handlebars swung at me and one of them dug into my ribs causing me to lose my breath for the first time in my life. It scared the crap out of me.

The next Sunday, my dad made me ride again. I never looked back!