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umenneske
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I can't ride a bike. I tried to learn to do it when I was under 8 years old, but I couldn't. I couldn't even balance on one leg when I was that little, so I obviously failed to ride a bike.
Maybe if try now, I'll be able to learn to ride a bike.
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AdamAdam
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Age: 24
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Location: Manchester
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I love riding a bike, although I don't have one atm. I learned to ride mine quite easily as a kid. |
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AnonymousAnonymous
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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No, I cannot ride a bike, although I want to badly.
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AspieAshley
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Age: 23
Posts: 174
Location: Bloomington, MN
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I have no problem riding a bike (except that now I basically can't because my OCD is too severe). But I needed training wheels for what my parents had me brainwashed to think was a long time. It really bothers me when they have the "you're a big girl you should be able to (fill in the blank)" type of attitude.
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Briana_Lopez
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Joined: Jan 07, 2012
Age: 16
Posts: 326
Location: Tyngsboro, MA
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Not sure how old I was when I first rode a bike. But I DO know the training wheels came off when I was 6 years old, which is just a little bit earlier than my 2 NT siblings. |
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mark99
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Joined: Feb 08, 2011
Age: 56
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I think I was riding a bike without training wheels at age 4. I've been an avid cyclist most of my life, and I'm leaving tomorrow night for a bicycle tour around Tuscany, Corsica and Sardinia. |
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rabbitears
BLUE PARASAUROLOPHUS WHISPERER
Joined: Jan 19, 2011
Age: 21
Posts: 6398
Location: In a box of chocolate milk mix.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:47 am Post subject: Re: Can you ride a bike? |
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| JoeRose wrote: | | I'm very interested in this one. I've never been able to ride a bike. There was one point (when I was 14) where I literally had to learn to ride a bike. So I went down to the park in a secluded area each day and tried my hardest and I nearly ended up breaking my wrist. I never learnt. It was so embarrassing because my school ran this trip to Germany. As part of the trip everybody was scheduled a bike ride around Koln. The whole trip was cancelled just because I was the only one who couldn't ride a bike! Anyway, just out of interest, can you ride a bike? |
I can't ride at all. I managed about 3 metres once....
I had a similar experience in Belgium during summer camp with the Marine Cadet Force I was in when I was 15, everyone went out for a bike ride around a country park, but I was the only one who couldn't ride, but no-one knew this until about 5 minutes before the bike ride was about to begin. I told the Colour Sergeant first, as I was also friends with him, and he told the instructors, and they tried to get me to ride while everyone else was out enjoying the ride, and the instructors supervised me for about an hour while I tried to learn, but I could do no more than sit on the seat and fall to the side after about two turns of the pedals. I ended up crying on a park bench about an hour into it due to the frustration and humiliation of it.
Another time I was visiting Centre Parcs (an activity holiday centre located in the woodland) with my brother and his girlfriend, and he tried to get me to ride a bike there that we had rented, but about half an hour into trying I had only managed the 3 metres or so I mentioned earlier, and was again embarrassed, so I took the bike back to the rental hut and got a refund. I wanted to get a trike, but he said that would be embarrassing for me (I think he meant it would be embarrassing for him though  , to be seen with me.... I've rented a trike since and rode it around in public and wasn't embarrassed at all - it was great fun!)
I couldn't even ride a scooter properly until a few weeks ago, but I practised a lot and now I'm not too bad on one. Much easier than a bike. I hate them.
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hanyo
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:38 am Post subject: Re: Can you ride a bike? |
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| rabbitears wrote: |
I had a similar experience in Belgium during summer camp with the Marine Cadet Force I was in when I was 15, everyone went out for a bike ride around a country park, but I was the only one who couldn't ride, but no-one knew this until about 5 minutes before the bike ride was about to begin. I told the Colour Sergeant first, as I was also friends with him, and he told the instructors, and they tried to get me to ride while everyone else was out enjoying the ride, and the instructors supervised me for about an hour while I tried to learn, but I could do no more than sit on the seat and fall to the side after about two turns of the pedals. I ended up crying on a park bench about an hour into it due to the frustration and humiliation of it. |
That reminds me of the time when I was in reform school and they took us out roller skating. After forcing me to go around once with a person on each side of me holding me up they let me stop. |
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rabbitears
BLUE PARASAUROLOPHUS WHISPERER
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That must have been embarrassing. 
Why can't people realise that it doesn't do us any good when forced into those sorts of situations? It has the complete opposite effect of helping.
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edgewaters
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Riding a bike almost feels more natural to me than walking. |
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Sempiternal
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Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I know how, but I'm not so good at it I guess. I don't like to ride a bicycle for long because I'm afraid that I'll crash into something or not being able to stop the bike correctly. If I'm riding a bike, I have to be in a large area with few obstecles, even so, I try not to go too fast in fear of something going wrong. |
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Cutlass_Jack
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It took me a while to learn how to do it(longer than most NT's) but I eventually got the hang of it. Doesn't mean I'm good at it.  |
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conundrum
seeking harmony in an imbalanced world
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Location: third rock from one of many suns
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I voted "no", because the last time I tried at all (about age 10), all I could do was ride in a circle in this cement skating area at my (then-local) park. I cannot ride in a straight line--can't balance.
I guess going in a circle worked because I was always leaning slightly to one side.
Never learned to swim, either. I have practiced driving but not for a while. I think I'm on my second or third permit now.
I walk, take the bus or get rides everywhere.
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1000Knives
It's not difficult if you know how.
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I feel like I had to take slightly longer than average to ride a bike, I think I learned by 1st grade or so, though. I think I was just super determined to, and did. I still ride occasionally as an adult, too. As an adult it's oddly scarier than as a kid when you just don't care and don't know how traffic works.
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Arran
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| One in ten children in Britain can't ride a bike according to an article in the Daily Mail but it doesn't mention anything about AS or dyspraxia. |
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