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Is it ever too late to learn how to ride a bicycle?
| So, I've had a rather traumatic experience in my childhood that involved falling of a friends bike and almost breaking my everything, so I decided not to get a bike ever. But now a lot of time has passed and I think I kinda would enjoy cycling around town. But, yet again, I'm scared that falling off a bike now (while learning) will be way more dangerous than it would've been before. And people will certainly laugh at a du...a g/u/rl failing miserably at learning how to ride a bike.
| Not to mention that I'm less than fit and don't really like being outdoors, so now that I think about it maybe it wasn't as good of an idea as I thought it was.
| >>68813 take a friend, her bike, and a helmet (I know it looks gay but it's more secure+u are afraid).
Then you go into some Park where they have grass n sum hills n shit.
Then you will sit on your bike with your helmet and your friend will hold your hand. And then you will drive, and then she will let you go, give you a little push, and you will be afraid but ride.
And then you have learned how to ride a bike.
Don't be afraid, it's allot of fun, and when you fall into the grass;
| it may hurt a little but your will survive <3
+When you learn how to ride a bike on grass you will be able to ride a bike on a street.
| At least you're not me. I can't ride a bike and I can't swim.
| Earlier in the year when there wasn't like half a meter of snow outside I was trying to learn how to ride a longboard. I bought one off amazon and while I was waiting for it to ship I watched a bunch of tutorials and shit. Once I got it, I tried it out, and I couldn't even stand on the thing while it was still for two seconds without falling off.
| I didn't touch it for a few months because I didn't want anyone to see some miserable cunt on the street trying to stand on a piece of wood without falling off. I forget why but I went to try it out again, but I decided to go to a parking lot behind some church to try and figure out how to use the thing.
| For some reason a bunch of cars ended up coming into the parking lot and just turning around back onto the road which really put me off because I didn't want anyone to see me while I was trying to get the hang of the thing. I gave up again because there were just too many people driving by and I was too embarrassed to do anything with all these cars going by.
| A few days later one of my friends started getting all up on my case when I told them about this because I was being such a pussy about it. So I went back to the parking lot and tried again. Eventually I worked up the nerve to actually try and practice even while cars were passing by. Really and truly though, it felt like one of the most embarrassing things I have ever in my life.
| I went about 4 times for about 2 hours each in the span of 2 weeks. I had made progress to the point that I could stand on the thing for about 10 seconds while it was moving slowly. About 25 hours of actual time practicing later and I could kind of push myself along and only fall every 45 seconds or so.
| It's winter now so I can't really practice until the snow clears. I'm uncoordinated as fuck so it'll probably be a while before I get this thing down completely.
Idk if a bike would take longer to learn but I'd just go and try it despite how embarrassing it might be. If you can go with a friend and act autistic together while you both try and learn something that might make it easier.
Anyways.
Good luck anon.
| Go do the things OP. Its not too late until you've croaked. I believe in you
| cmon, riding a biycycle kind of fun, well, i usually ride my motorcycle everyday to work, one time i drive so fast, and there's this wild dog crossing the street, braking with my front and back brake, and well, somehow i still fall from that, it's about 90km/h though, luckily just broke my leg
| >>68815
The thing is, I don't really have a friend like that around. Plus, embarassing myself that much in front of a friend might be even worse, I don't think someone would be patient enough to handle me being shit at things for a long period of time. So yeah... Kinda don't think that that's an option for me. Thanks for the input though.
| Tl;Dr . There are lessons for immigrants to learn how to cycle in my country, so no, it's not too late to learn.
| >>ad853f
Sorry to hear that, op.
Just... Get used to falling, swallow your pride, do it. Good luck!
| Op the first time i rode a bike with no training wheels it felt amazing,sure i hit a rock while going super fast on a downwards hill and went flying,but after that i was not afraid of falling anymore.If you try to learn again you will fall, a lot, but after that you will lern to get up.
| ｊｕｓｔ ｄｏ ｉｔ
| Remember one time my wheels spun on a patch of sand and knocked out with huge scrapes. Didnt ride much after that. Only just recently I got back to biking... but it was during a sightseeing trip in Hawaii. Near an active lavaflow. At night and near pitchblack on wet gravel (did I mention it started thunderstorming?). Yet another biking trauma for me.
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| I'm 22 and I never learned how to do it. Yes, you can laugh now. C'mon, get it out of your system, I'll wait. All done now? May I continue? Good.