Do you know how to ride a bicycle?
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Well, yeah I do  know how to ride a bike. My favorite one is Mongoose and it's tight. I learned by myself and anyone can too if they try
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You need a license to ride a bike?  Never heard of such a thing.  maybe they have safety courses to teach kids the rules of the road and bike safety, but a license??????????????
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Try to learn to ride a unicycle!
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Make sure to wear a helmet and shoes.\n\nStart at a slow speed. You will pick up speed as you go. Pull up on the handle bars and at the same time do a strong pedal. Be careful not to pull over.  Make sure you are standing up. Any fat tire (mountain bike type) would do. The higher the handle bars the easier. Once up, try not to pedal too fast, just fast enough to keep the front end up. The more you practice, the further you can go. Try to compete against your friends.
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Learn how to horse-hop. Rolling at a slow speed, standing on the pedals; in one fluid two step motion: crank into a high wheelie, put your weight on the back tire for a split second, then jump up off of the back tire pushing the handlebars up and forward and lifting your feet as high as you can.\n\nLifting and pushing on the bar is what keeps the pedals on your feet (try lifting the bike like this a couple times while standing next to it to see how it works).\n\nYou should be able to get at least a foot or more off of the ground with a little practice. The trick is in weighting the back tire and then jumping off of it.\n\nNow: Take this technique with a little more speed to some small jumps and shock yourself. With the right timing you can go ridiculously high off of very small things.\n\nWith bigger jumps this technique is not necessary or possible but your body motion is very similar so this is a good place to start.
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I have been cycling for about 15 years. The best way to train for cycling is to be a 'spinner' not a 'grinder'. A spinner is someone who is constantly pedaling. The key to being a spinner (i have found) is train your body/mind to downshift BEFORE you need it. If you are pedalling and you think that there is 'too much resistance' at the pedal (aka--that the pedal is getting hard to push) then you are downshifting too late. Lance Armstrong is a excellent example of a spinner. \nA grinder is someone who uses a higher gear that generates a lot of power, but generally that uses a lot more energy from pushing a higher gear.\n\nMy personal favorite way to keep my spinning technique up is to use a computer that measures your cadence. Normal bicycle computers mount a sensor on your front tire and fork. This measures how fast you go, but you could ride a down a mountain at 25 mph without pedalling much--and that would not necessarily be a good overall training indicator. A computer with cadence mounts on your crank and it measures crank rpm. If money is no object, you can get gear that measures the amount of watts you are producing. This can get pretty pricy though. \n\nHope this helps you out.\n\nIf you have any more questions (need gear recommendations or anything). Feel free to email me at whostolemymojo at yahoo . com\n\n=)\n\nOh and to answer your original question. I watch a lot of cycling on t.v. myself. Most riders maintain a constant (fairly constant) pedal cadence. This definitely varies when they are riding in a pack as drafting or obstacles (riders in front and/or on both sides of you) take place. You might have to coast/stop your cadence momentarily in those circumstances. Also, weather, terrain--down a steep mountain grade, curves, etc can affect you as well. Watch more racing and see how often most guys pedal. You will notice it is almost always non-stop when there is no outside factors hindering their progress. The key to cycling is to go as fast as you can while expending as little energy in the process--hence drafting is a great way to conserve energy for the sprint at the end of a race.\nUnfortunately, if you are training for triathlons, you will not have the good fortune of drafting--triathlons have many rules prohibiting drafting.\n\nGood luck!
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Walk, ride a bike.  Carpool, combine trips by advance planning.  Drive a smaller automobile.
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with practise...\n\nand wear a helmet please...
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My cousin had a banana bike, and we rode double and we used her feet as training wheels.. She taught me how to ride, and we had alot of fun. Thanks! I am sitting here chuckling about it, and that was almost 40 years ago.
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you use your hands to pedal...it has different gearings on the cogs, freewheel, and sprocket. it is a funny position to ride in but is very good to strenghthen your arms and your whole upper body. it just takes getting used to.
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all this advice you have received so far is a bit skewed and lacking practicality.  first off, if your bike is small enough, you can lower your seat, and take off the pedals.  good pedals require a 15mm wrench to remove, cheap ones a 1/2'' wrench, the one on the non drive side is reverse treaded, ie left is tighter... dropping your saddle and removing the pedals allow you to push around with your feet, and let you instantly put a foot down if you feel scared.  i would push around in a garage or in an empty parking lot, until you get the hang of even being on a bike.  adult training wheels are a bad idea, they train you to let the training wheels balance you, making you more or less rely on something that soon wont be there....
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hahahahahahaaaaahaaahahahahahahahaaahaahahahahahha!!!!! Bike? Eh'll gie you bike!
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as soon as ur front tyre is in the air u try to pull the bike towards ur body n try to stand up on the foot rest.don't worry u keep trying n u will get there.the more u practice the more easy it becomes.
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First, get a helmet and wear it. One way to learn balance is to get next to a tree, just to have something to catch your foot on if you start falling. If you ever fall while riding, keep your hands on the handlebars. I learned the hard way breaking my wrist. Get a good biking book. There are lots. Don't ride in the road while learning and be careful. Good Luck!
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I really need to know also! I won a surfboard at a local raffle, and I want to learn how to use it. If I were you, I would ask some people surfing on the beaches what questions you have. They are probably the best people to ask because they've been through it already. \n\nOf course you can still learn! Is there a maximum age to ride a bike. No, but older people may get hurt as they become older (I'm talking 60+) So, as long as you're up for the soreness and risk of it all, go for it!\n\nIf I find out any info, I'll edit this.\n\nOh, and good luck! I Wish I could be of more assistance.
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Balancing on a bicycle is mostly the act of correcting the wobble.  As you start to tip right, you angle the wheel to the right a tiny bit and roll the bike back underneath yourself.  The actions are automatic and subtle, but in order for this mode of balancing to work, the bicycle has to be moving, otherwise turning the wheel doesn't do anything.\n\nThe other balancing, moving your body back over the bicycle, is more difficult, and less important, so most people never get to practise it during their normal use of a bicycle.\n\nGyroscopic effects are unimportant, even moving very, very slowly on a bicycle with very light wheels is much easier to balance than being stopped on the same bicycle.
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a bike would help and then... practice practice practice!