Do You Remember Learning To Ride A Bicycle?

I don't know my age because I'm bad with time though I know it's less than 8yrs, but I remember lots about learning to ride the bicycle because of such events:

Being pretty skinny as a kid I once managed to slip my foot between the wire rims of the tire on a bike and get my leg stuck through the tire. I truly couldn't get it out, my mother tried to use butter, and what not, but i was really stuck. My dad often travelled so wasn't around, so she called the emergency, I assume 911. Anyways, a fire truck came with 2 guys who simply pried the metal wire apart. This was so memorable, because it was the only time I've ever seen the inside of a firetruck.

Around a similar age I remember a fall that really hurt along the sidewalk of my street, it's so funny to think now that biking used to have that threat. In fact I think about that often how intuitive balancing on a bike is (or can become).

I also grew up with a neighbor who was so overly strict about wearing bike helmets that it's laughable how much I've never done so, possibly out of rebellion.

Though I don't have much memories of it, I've been told I really loved the tricycle while even younger.

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Everyone averaged seems to have been riding a bike around age 6, wonder how common that is

 

Must have been around 4 or 5 years old as well. I remember I was learning it at a camping site where there were no curbs on the side of the streets. This while I started learning how to stop and get off the bike solely by using the curb.... slowing down and put my feet on it. So at that time I could ride my bicycle but not yet stop properly. This is my main memory from when I learned how to ride bicycles. I remember some crashes too but they were from later on

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Thanks everybody....fun seeing memories of being a kid. When I learned, they didn't have banana seats or ape hanger handlebars yet....those came out when I was about eleven.

I think my first memories went all the way back to when I was two or three years old. I remember watching Blinky the clown on tv, and Roy Rogers with my grampa. And I remember smoking my first cigarette with my grampa at age three. He said I couldn't smoke till I was three, because Daniel Boone didn't kill his first bear till he was three. Soon after that, my mom's new army husband got sent to Germany. We went too. I remember taking a miniature train down in the salt mines. I remember after Germany, we got sent to South Carolina, and I had to walk home from kindergarden when I was five, and didn't make it home before I tossed a turd in my paints. I had a pet rabbit then that scratched my hand....still have the scar.

 

I already looked down on fellow bicycle riders with helmets when I was a kid :-D So they were there, but then still rare. Surely there were sidewheels and bananaseats too in my youth but can't remember making use of them.
But I'm from a country where it is rare not to ride a bicycle, even when you're an adult. Btw I see the use of a helmet when you're on a racing bicycle or are seriously mountainbiking!

 

Don't remember what age, but was sitting on my brothers bike on a slight hill, suddenly it took off and I was pedaling to keep from crashing. I knew I couldn't reach the ground with my feet, so I remember being freaked out at how I would stop the thing. Finally managed to brake next to an old truck with a running board and get off the thing. True story.

 

The ones we had as kids you would pedal backwards to break.

 

I don't know how old I was when I first started riding a bike. All I remember is that I fell a lot and eventually abandoned it.

 

i remember that scwins were what there was, and they didn't have gears and they didn't have breaks. this was in the u.s. in the early 50s.
no lightweight frames nor mountain bikes. they came in different colors and had fenders, but that's about it.
i suppose there might have been bike shops in the cities, but i wouldn't have known.
where i lived in the northern sierras, they came from monkey wards or sears.

 

i remember being born. i remember scaring the bejebus out of my mom and damd near killing myself before i learned how to talk, but i'll be blessed if i can remember anything about the first time i was able to balance on two wheels.

 

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