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Title: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: The artist formally known on May 21, 2008, 12:09:56 AM
my friend whose 18 never learned how to ride a bike.

i can't imagine how to help her learn. any suggestions?
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Daddy on May 21, 2008, 12:13:32 AM
Same way you teach a child.  Hold on and let go once they are moving.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: The artist formally known on May 21, 2008, 12:17:51 AM
Quote from: JMV on May 21, 2008, 12:13:32 AM
Same way you teach a child.  Hold on and let go once they are moving.
I guess so.  befuddlement

But thats really after training wheels. I have a bike with like 2 inch wide tires, she can easily drive that thing. It's not really learning to balance, it's learning to trust the bike.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: me003 on May 21, 2008, 12:19:40 AM
When I was a kid my training wheels would always fall off while I was riding, and then I'd just go in a circle for like a second and crash.  edumacate;
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Socks on May 21, 2008, 12:32:35 AM
I can't even remember how I learned.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: One Man Freak Show on May 21, 2008, 01:47:25 AM
I don't know how to ride a bike or swim. :(
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: superclucky on May 21, 2008, 03:53:43 AM
my aunt taught me because my parents gave up on me <3
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Cookie on May 21, 2008, 06:11:37 AM
I never had to learn. I just saw other people do it, so I just got on and did it.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Skylark on May 21, 2008, 06:21:26 AM
Since she's 18 it won't be very difficult for her to pick it up.
She just has to build confidence in riding a bike and it will come pretty easy
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: don't let's on May 21, 2008, 10:22:28 AM
Take her to the top of a hill, have her get on the bike and go down the hill.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Sam on May 21, 2008, 12:07:41 PM
offer her sex if she learns.   :|
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on May 21, 2008, 01:19:19 PM
I expected a punch line, thinking that the title of this thread was a joke. :|
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: The artist formally known on May 21, 2008, 02:14:17 PM
Quote from: One Man Freak Show on May 21, 2008, 01:47:25 AM
I don't know how to ride a bike or swim. :(
yeah and my two friends thought it was weird when i had asked her if she knew how to swim.  befuddlement
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on May 21, 2008, 02:21:44 PM
I can't swim. befuddlement
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Karel on May 21, 2008, 02:27:32 PM
Quote from: HUNTER TECTRON on May 21, 2008, 02:21:44 PM
I can't swim. befuddlement
have you ever been in water before
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on May 21, 2008, 02:28:45 PM
Quote from: Cat's Squirrel on May 21, 2008, 02:27:32 PM
have you ever been in water before

yes but i don't really like being in deep water ;-;
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Selkie on May 21, 2008, 05:20:03 PM
I came into this thread expecting a punch line. Did anyone else?
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Norwegian Lesbians on May 21, 2008, 05:21:56 PM
I have a lifeguards liscense lolz
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: YPrrrr on May 21, 2008, 05:22:04 PM
Quote from: Selkie224 on May 21, 2008, 05:20:03 PM
I came into this thread expecting a punch line. Did anyone else?
Quote from: HUNTER TECTRON on May 21, 2008, 01:19:19 PM
I expected a punch line, thinking that the title of this thread was a joke. :|
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Geno on May 21, 2008, 05:25:36 PM
Quote from: sam on May 21, 2008, 12:07:41 PM
offer her sex if she learns.   :|
Women like sex?  O_0
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Daddy on May 21, 2008, 05:31:49 PM
lol
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Sam on May 21, 2008, 05:46:09 PM
Quote from: Geñø on May 21, 2008, 05:25:36 PM
Women like sex?  O_0

why wouldn't they?
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Trini on May 21, 2008, 05:58:15 PM
lol
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Houdini on May 21, 2008, 05:59:51 PM
Just tell her your have to trust the bike.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Daphnia on May 21, 2008, 06:26:47 PM
Believe in the bike. The bike is an extension of yourself. Feel the bike flow through you.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: me003 on May 21, 2008, 06:32:43 PM
Quote from: HUNTER TECTRON on May 21, 2008, 02:28:45 PM
yes but i don't really like being in deep water ;-;
I try to act like I don't know how to swim, yet flailing in the pool I'm able to swim, so I don't get how you don't figure it out.
Title: Re: how do you teach an 18 year old to ride a bike?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on May 21, 2008, 06:48:23 PM
lol