Topic: Started learning how to ride a bike today...

Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #45,101

How do small children manage to do this, but I, at 20 years of age, can't get more than fifteen feet?

Poll option	Votes	Percentage
they have positive, helpful father figures to guide them	6	67%
kill yourself	1	11%
children participate in witchcraft that improves their balance	1	11%
bikes are a myth	-	0%
you're just a klutz and not even in a quirky way	1	11%
not sure	-	0%

dw joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later[^] [v] #595,645

i do not understand

DasSheeple joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #595,646

...and then there is the fact that @OPenis is a faggot, so you probably enjoy your seat penetrating your anus to be able to focus on riding...

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #595,647

@595,645 (dw)

What is the mystery, friend?

@previous (DasSheeple)

My anus is too big for me to enjoy seat penetration anymore :(

brie !uXWPG0MygI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 38 seconds later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #595,648

Promise me you won't ride the town bike.

It's a one way ticket to crotch rot city.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #595,656

The dutch can never understand this, it's like boat people wondering what seasickness is

DasSheeple replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,663

@595,647 (A)
On a serious note, when you're a little kid riding a bike, centre of gravity is lower and it's easier to ride, so you learn way easier...

Go to your local dirt trails and ask some of the riders to try their bikes (pic related, they should drive something like that).
With the low as fuck frames, it's pretty much impossible to tip over...

The Owl !KThEOwLwbU joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,665

I fell over all the time when I was a kid learning to ride

Anon Z joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 17 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,669

Ever thought of using training wheels?

Sure, all the girls and old people will laugh at you. But who cares?

The Owl !KThEOwLwbU replied with this 11 years ago, 10 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,672

@previous (Anon Z)

He would be better off taking the pedals off and lowering the saddle so he can walk the bike and practise balance by lifting his feet off the ground

Stabilisers make you lazy

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 43 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,676

umm just dont be retarded, its really easy

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,677

@OP

maybe you're just so fat that any inch of counterbalance fucks you up

dw replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,694

You just gotta go fast op

Anonymous I replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,697

seriously just start pedalling, how does it not come naturally? for kids it's understandable because they're a bit retarded

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,704

@595,694 (dw)
this.

Million Mong March joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 4 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,751

Yeah, use training wheels. No one taught me how to ride. The training wheels got a bit loose and didn't always contact the ground after a while, and eventually they became annoying to even be there because I got my balance trained. The tough part was getting my dad to hurry up and take the fucking wheels off jesus christ it's been weeks or somethings

As for lowering the seat only, that doesn't work if the bike size, your legs, and the range of adjustability of the bike do not ever permit your feet to properly contact the ground in a useful way.

Avoid bikes that put your ass up high and make you crane your neck up to see in front of you. You'll strain all sorts of muscles and ride hard on your prostate and ballsack nerves. You can numb out your whole genitals.

Syntax joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,755

@595,663 (DasSheeple)
> centre of gravity

I have never tried a unicycle - don't no anyone who has.
My only memories of learning to ride a bike - was only that it worked and probably did fall once or? All I remember is the fun. One does NOT learn to downhill ski without falling.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #595,829

@595,669 (Anon Z)

I'm much too hardcore for training wheels. I'd rather eat pavement than go buy training wheels for myself

@595,694 (dw)

That is good advice thank you

@595,751 (Million Mong March)

I've never been so glad to not have balls. That sounds horrifying

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