Poll of the Day > 6% of Americans DO NOT know how to ride a BICYCLE!! Are you one???

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No surprise here but it appears a massive majority of americans and likely people around the world know how to ride a bike given its the first vehicle, if you want to call it that, that parents teach young ones how to ride...

White People are the most likely group who know how to ride one too compared to other ethnic groups

So are you part of the majority or minority?

https://i.imgur.com/HSSMw28.jpg

Used to ride a bike 16 miles a day.
Wish our infrastructure was better suited for it.

I'm neither an American nor somebody that doesn't know how to ride a bike. Were I not working from home, I'd be commuting overwhelmingly by bike, ~4 km each way.

I learned how to ride a bike in college. I havent ridden in 2 years now but Im sure I could

Not sure if I remember how. I upgraded to a ride-on lawnmower.

No. I'm not an American.

Canadian. Never rode a bike because I never had one. I had a tricycle when I was a toddler though lmao.

mrduckbear posted...

Are you one of the low percentage of people who does know how to ride a bicycle?

what? ok, you confused me there for a bit. so 6% of people _don't_ know, ok.

for a second I was thinking it was only 6% that _did_ know which seemed more than a bit odd

rode a bike all over as a kid and a little as an adult. fantastically better than walking.

Kinda, but I was very bad at it.

I'm kinda surprised that many people know how to ride, I figured it would be a big majority but not 94%. I know but I also know a decent amount of people that don't

*I* certainly can.

I think that 6% number will shoot up given the new kid culture of getting together virtually (accelerated greatly by pandemic), though. My kids know how...but they never bike to a friend's house. Kills me.

Lokarin posted...

No. I'm not an American.

Canadia is part of the Americas my dude

For everybody who chose the second option; It's like riding a bike.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

For everybody who chose the second option; It's like riding a bike.

Indeed. Most of learning to ride a bike is getting confident enough to get up to a stable speed (which isn't very fast, but being timid about it makes it hard to get there without losing control) and trusting that bikes naturally stabilize themselves so you don't have to make major balance adjustments yourself. If you've ever managed to figure it out, it comes back very quickly.

Now, being comfortable and confident enough to ride in traffic? That's another beast.

Bike all the time

I taught myself at age 10.

I remember learning as a kid, but I didn't ride my bike much in elementary school and stopped in middle school entirely. Haven't owned a bike since. I assume I could ride one, but I never felt comfortable on them.

Never learned. On my own according at like 11 I tried teaching myself. Did a straight line well enough but never got confident turning.

No. I have been ridden, but I'm not a bicycle.

I'm British and know how to ride a bike although it's been a while since I have.

Muscles posted...

I'm kinda surprised that many people know how to ride, I figured it would be a big majority but not 94%. I know but I also know a decent amount of people that don't

This, although a lot of statistics are wrong.

Been decades since I've been on a bicycle; upgraded to a motorcycle.

And now it's been decades since I've been on a motorcycle . . .

I lost one of my best friends over this actually. For about 6 months at least. We were around 14 and he was slowing me down. I bought him a bike with my money which was a big deal. He promised to learn and let me teach him. He just wouldn't do it. Every time he'd freak out, start crying. It was a mess.

On the other hand my Dad hadn't ridden a bike since he was 12 and he got on one at 70 and rode it like a champ. He even went down a steep driveway against my Mom's wishes. I didn't stop him because I didn't know it had been so long.

I guess you never forget.

When I learned to ride a bike, I wrecked about 5 times. 10 more for going too hard. No major injuries.

I think learning to bike is like learning to ski. If you don't learn it early, you probably will never have the ambition to learn it later in life. Then if you do learn it, you don't mind picking it up again even if you ignore it for years and years.

Dikitain posted...

I think learning to bike is like learning to ski. If you don't learn it early, you probably will never have the ambition to learn it later in life. Then if you do learn it, you don't mind picking it up again even if you ignore it for years and years.

I feel like biking has a more practical component than skiing which makes learning it later more common, plus skiing isn't an option throughout most of the country whereas biking should be possible most places and there's more of a culture supporting it.