My first cycling experience as a child. 

My first cycling experience as a child.

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I can remember vividly my childhood experience riding a bicycle. The experience was horrible I must say. No one was kind enough to teach me how to ride a bicycle even though I was curious about it. The adults we had about that time were busy going about their daily businesses. However, my curiosity pushed me to learn how to ride myself.

How it started

I was barely 10 years old, we had a rickety bicycle, I guess it was owned by my dad at that time. It was an adult bicycle hence children would find it difficult to ride because of the height of the bicycle. The bicycle has been discarded for so many years because it was faulty. I can remember that I loved bicycles so much. So I would take the bicycle with me to a valley that was close to our house and let it roll down the little valley that we had while I hung on the pedal. I did this repeatedly and almost every day after school.

Not many weeks later, I graduated from just hanging on the pedal to attempting to cycle it. It was a very difficult task for me because the bicycle was bigger than I was, hence I could not use the actual seat of the bicycle. I devised a means of going in between the middle of the bicycle and between the two irons that are the center of the bicycle. I had pains all over my body but I had to endure it. I knew that to achieve anything in life, you must endure the pains. In the process of doing this, I had scars on my right leg.

I did this repeatedly till one day, at my usual valley. I pushed the bicycle up the mountain, and I squeezed myself in between the two irons, I held the hand of the bicycle, I placed my legs on the pedal, and as the bicycle began to roll down the valley, I saw myself paddling the bicycle. That was a breakthrough for me. I was able to ride the bicycle efficiently. Not too long after, I hit the road with my special kind of ride and everyone was wow to see a small boy maneuvering an adult bicycle.

However, there was one popular way people used to learn how to ride a bicycle. It happened this way the learner would climb the bike while another would be on the ground holding the bicycle while the other would learn how to ride. I was not opportune to learn mine this way. In my case, I learned how to ride a bicycle the hard way.

How did you learn how to ride a bicycle? Feel free to comment. Thanks for coming to my blog.