The day you learned to cycle, do you remember it?

Karl Stein · 31-05-2014 02:19AM #1

I do, vividly. It was over thirty years ago in a small town in County Derry. The roads were puddled after a heavy shower and I was on a blue bike.

As soon as the rain stopped I was out on the bike trying to crack it. The sunlight was dancing on the puddles I was cycling through. I was about 4 or five years old. I did it by myself and can still remember the joy I felt at being able to cycle a two wheeled bike unaided.

Do you remember when you learned to cycle?

wretcheddomain · 31-05-2014 02:26AM

Do you remember what time it is?

Fred Swanson · 31-05-2014 02:29AM

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Karl Stein · 31-05-2014 02:29AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Do you remember what time it is?

Hammer time?

Fred Swanson wrote: »

I was 18!

No way?

masti123 · 31-05-2014 02:31AM

I was 5 and my mate just took his stabilisers off so i went in and took mine off and mastered it in 15 minutes

_Redzer_ · 31-05-2014 02:32AM

Yep. Had stabilisers for a while that didn't work and one day dad just pushed the bike down the hill. It was learn then or crash into a wall.

Great parenting as always when I was growing up.

Sir Arthur Daley · 31-05-2014 02:33AM

Should this day be remomorated?

Aidric · 31-05-2014 02:34AM

Not distinctly but it definitely involved stabilisers. Much more vivid was the time I learned to swim because I still do it to this day.

yawhat! · 31-05-2014 02:34AM

Pity cycling was invented so I wouldn't have to deal with these people on the road everyday who clearly have no idea of the rules of the road! Major threat on the road. If you want to cycle go out to some country road in the middle of no where where there is no traffic or get the rules of the road book and study it! Scandalous there is no theory test for cyclists! Sick of their carry on!

Fred Swanson · 31-05-2014 02:35AM

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Karl Stein · 31-05-2014 02:36AM

yawhat! wrote: »

Whinge, moan etc

Victor Meldrew thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

obplayer · 31-05-2014 02:43AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

I do, vividly. It was over thirty years ago in a small town in County Derry. The roads were puddled after a heavy shower and I was on a blue bike.

As soon as the rain stopped I was out on the bike trying to crack it. The sunlight was dancing on the puddles I was cycling through. I was about 4 or five years old. I did it by myself and can still remember the joy I felt at being able to cycle a two wheeled bike unaided.

Do you remember when you learned to cycle?

At about 7 or 8 my father took me to a park and assured me he would look after me. He held on to the seat and kept talking to me to make me feel secure. There came a point when I realised dad had not replied to me for some time. Glance over the shoulder! Panic! Dad a long way behind! Realised I had been cycling unaided for several minutes. Job done.

--LOS-- · 31-05-2014 02:43AM

ye I vaguely remember cycling in the kitchen because the kitchen was quite long.

wow I bored myself just typing that

this is not a very exciting thread is it :P

LizzieJones · 31-05-2014 02:44AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

Do you remember when you learned to cycle?

Yes. My dad helped me. Lovely summer day. I even have a photograph of the event.

Sir Arthur Daley · 31-05-2014 02:45AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

this is not a very exciting thread is it :P

No its not.

wolfpawnat · 31-05-2014 02:48AM

My mums boyfriend (I called him dad at the time) taught me, he even got me a cool mountain bike for it, a purple Falcon one, I loved it.

I taught my partner (a 29 yo) to cycle in November, he wanted to learn before we taught our son in December. I found it odd a person not knowing how to cycle at that age.

Karl Stein · 31-05-2014 02:48AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

ye I vaguely remember cycling in the kitchen because the kitchen was quite long.

'I cycled by the butler, and cook, towards where Mummy was having tea with Auntie Harriet in the pantry'.

--LOS-- · 31-05-2014 03:00AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

'I cycled by the butler, and cook, towards where Mummy was having tea with Auntie Harriet in the pantry'.

no not that long :pac:

Aidric · 31-05-2014 03:10AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

'I cycled by the butler, and cook, towards where Mummy was having tea with Auntie Harriet in the pantry'.

Were you wearing a cock ring?

Karl Stein · 31-05-2014 03:15AM

Aidric wrote: »

Were you wearing a cock ring?

Nope. I was wearing nothing but the honey and M&M's I had just rolled in.

The Backwards Man · 31-05-2014 03:46AM

Christmas morning 1985. Santa brought me a bike but I was sad because my Granda was buried the day before.

djerk · 31-05-2014 03:54AM

think i must have been 5 or so when i first cycled without stabilisers (on my sisters bike)

went across the garden and straight into a wall!

i even rem the bike..

bmxmuseum.com/image/dsc02709_lg.jpg

wouldnt mind one of those even now

--LOS-- · 31-05-2014 04:07AM

The kids over here (amsterdam) are amazing, tiny little things whizzing around, not a stabiliser in sight.

Dozen Wicked Words · 31-05-2014 04:27AM

Was 16 when I eventually tried to learn. I wobbled down the road on a bike too big for me, nearly got hit by a car, got off the bike and haven't got on another bike since.

diomed · 31-05-2014 04:39AM

About 5 or 6 using a black ladies bicycle on my grandmother's gravel drive. I ate a lot of gravel.

padders67 · 31-05-2014 07:39AM

was a gold and red number and it took me ages before the stabilisers came off .

father lied to me saying hes till had a hold of me but never looked back after that

Arthur Beesley · 31-05-2014 07:51AM

No. But I remember cycling straight into a neighbours gate that had swung outward. And remember going over the handlebars because I only used the front brakes.

TPD · 31-05-2014 08:41AM

Hugh Laurie laughed at my attempts to learn when I was 3 or 4. Showed him though, cycling every day now and hardly ever fall off!

Sunglasses Ron · 31-05-2014 08:46AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

No way?

I knew a bird who was 28 or so and claimed she couldn't ride a bike due to a psychological condition called dyspraxia that affected her confidence of balance, and a whole load of other things.

I blame the fact she was easily 27 stone. She was one strange fish it must be said.

anncoates · 31-05-2014 09:04AM

Yes. It was in a park in Manchester and my Da was teaching me. Remember him running beside me and pushing me along before I managed to keep going myself.

Arthur Beesley · 31-05-2014 09:05AM

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I knew a bird who was 28 or so and claimed she couldn't ride a bike due to a psychological condition called dyspraxia that affected her confidence of balance, and a whole load of other things.

I blame the fact she was easily 27 stone. She was one strange fish it must be said.

Were you 'intimate' with her?

The day you learned to cycle, do you remember it?

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