Do You Remember When You First Learnt to Ride Your Bike?

It was on Pay street, in a small village near Folkestone,
(south east of England) and I was 4.

Yes. My old man let go of me and pushed me down a huge grass hill. I don't have a picture. Here's one a few years later.

We were talking about this the other night. My mum claims she took me to the park and taught me. Obviously the old man says it was him. I dunno when it was but I was found half a mile away on my bike when I was four.

I remember every moment of this, my dad kept on saying he wouldn't let go and then he did at which point I screamed at him for letting me go down that road, it wasn't really a hill, but definitely sloping. :( I was shitting myself. :(

I was taught next to barnes railway station. On a path next to a cricket field.
On a GT or so it claimed to be.

I remember it really really well.

in fact the more i think about it, the more I remember.
I don't remember falling off, but I remember my dad being well proud as I circuited the pitch. In the middle of a game.

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I remember my first time. It was a warm summers eve. I remember shouting to whoever it was holding on at the back "you can let go now". I remember hearing a faint "I let go ages ago" to which I promptly fell off whilst trying to see where they were! Got back on and started riding straight away and haven't looked back really. Good thread to start Delphina.

Hehe

Wolfenger I remember my first time. It was a warm summers eve. I remember shouting to whoever it was holding on at the back "you can let go now". I remember hearing a faint "I let go ages ago" to which I promptly fell off whilst trying to see where they were! Got back on and started riding straight away and haven't looked back really. Good thread to start Delphina.

Hehe ^^ thank you! Like your story, hehe. :)

I was 4, i had a red bmx and an orange stackhat, and my dad taught me to ride in the street outside my house.

Yes, i remember.

The first time i took the stabilizers off, I went off really fast out of our flat but i didn't know how to brake properly so i went flying down a flight of stairs!

and my parents never fail to tell people about it, they thought it was hilarious!

I was in High Wycombe in Bucks. I remember that without stabilizers it was fine coasting down the dip in the pavement where people's drives were, but as it 'climbed' up again I lost my balance.

Also rode down the short steep drive from my house (High Wycombe is very hilly), desperately trying to veer to the right, but overshooting and putting a massive scratch along a neighbour's car. That was about my 3rd time on the bike unaided :)

i was 7 i think my dad was holding me down a grassy hill and it felt all weird i carried on going and i looked
back to see where he was and he wasn't behind me i was riding i can remember it really well actually and i went from there.

BringMeMyFix I was in High Wycombe in Bucks. I remember that without stabilizers it was fine coasting down the dip in the pavement where people's drives were, but as it 'climbed' up again I lost my balance.

Also rode down the short steep drive from my house (High Wycombe is very hilly), desperately trying to veer to the right, but overshooting and putting a massive scratch along a neighbour's car. That was about my 3rd time on the bike unaided :)

hmm no wonder you are so fast up hills, started young!

note to self : raise children in hilly area.

One of my first memories was having my stablisers taken off. I was very sceard. My mum tried to teach me failed, I threw a strop and wend off and taught myself in the garden and was well happy and ran in and told her. I rember feeling guilty for having a strop but well happy that I had done it.

heh - I had a Raleigh 'budgie' in a sort of bronzy orangey colour - quite smart if not the height of 70s chopper cool. All I remember is going up and down our road in Coventry, a city which, remarkably, has managed to not improve at all in 20 30 (I may as well admit it..) years.

HA! I had a raleigh budgie it used to click every time the cranks rotated so you could hear me coming from miles away.
I had two learning phases, one in Ham, Richmond on the grass with my grandad, and one awesome baptism of fire that involved me on my mates grifter, several mates behind me giving me a push, letting go me flying down the road - seeing my dad up on the balcony of our place - screaming at him 'look Dad, looook!' then crashing head first into a hedge as in my excitement i'd forgotten there was a corner.
I still remember my dad pulling me out of the hedge by my legs - was proper comedy stuck in head first.

Also remember my mum screaming blue bloody murder at me when she caught me laying under a badly fabricated ramp in the middle of the road whilst Bobby from Number 1 (who had a proper bmx) jumped over me and my mate. I honestly couldnt see what the problem was at the time.

big up the budgie massive!

Technically I learnt on the plastic three wheel tractor which I hogged religiously at play school.I'm an only child.By four I stagared like a drunk on my blue folding happy shopper. Only until, perched at the top of the mountain, aka the local park hill, did i rid my drunken style. Hurtling down at break neck speed, terrified to move the handle bars incase i threw myself from my prized bike did I learn to truely master the reins.

Every kid should have access to a bike. THey are so liberating. All the woods, and rivers and beaches I visited as a kid. The adventures with mates.awesome.Bikes were an integral part of my childhood.
Good times
I wish I could share my grining pictures of me on my bike but they are all with my mum.Ah well makes going home amusing.
Good shout on the thread

awww mine was exactly the same, I forgot what a thing of beauty it was...
I'm gonna have to go through my mums photo albums now, i'm sure i have a pic of me on mine, or at least my bmx which was my next beast once i'd grown out of my budgie(run it into the ground)

I can't remember when I first learned to ride my bike...

I think it was yesterday

scott ur bike ruled!!
i had a blue raleigh dont know what sought

i dont remember riding with the stabilizers allthough i know i did for a while
i remember the first time they were taken off though
dad followed untill i could balance fine, then he got talking to next door neighbour
i had been riding around and around but not needed to use the brakes
so with both them with thier backs to me and no warning i accidently crahed into them :]

All the woods, and rivers and beaches I visited as a kid

hell yea, would be gone all day with friends narrowly missing trees, good times

My Raleigh from a few years later :D

scott not scot Here's the bad boy!

that's the fella!
dig that rear triangle.. erm .. quadrilateral..

er... i rode a bike on an oil tanker once, if that counts. to be honest, i learnt to ride a bike at such a precociously young age i practically rode out of my mum's gaping womb.

edit - loving the red.

it's on [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_Island]ascension[/ame] island, if anyone gives a shit.

pj (pj) er... i rode a bike on an oil tanker once, if that counts. to be honest, i learnt to ride a bike at such a precociously young age i practically rode out of my mum's gaping womb.

edit - loving the red.

it's on ascension island, if anyone gives a shit.

You haven't changed a bit. ;]

lpg [quote]BringMeMyFix I was in High Wycombe in Bucks. I remember that without stabilizers it was fine coasting down the dip in the pavement where people's drives were, but as it 'climbed' up again I lost my balance.

Also rode down the short steep drive from my house (High Wycombe is very hilly), desperately trying to veer to the right, but overshooting and putting a massive scratch along a neighbour's car. That was about my 3rd time on the bike unaided :)

hmm no wonder you are so fast up hills, started young!

note to self : raise children in hilly area.[/quote]

My formative years on a bike were in Essex. Didn't even see a hill unless you count the bridge over the bypass.