Live, Learn, Ride.

Believe it or not, it has taken me over twenty years to ride a bicycle.
Well, I guess the average age for learning to ride a bike is about 6.
So it's technically taken me over 14 years to learn to ride.

Everything started out very normally when I was a kid. My dad bought me my dream training bike. It was hot pink and had a white basket up on the handles and even had flower decals on the frame. I was pretty eager to ride my bike.
After a few days of riding with my training wheels still attatched to the rear wheel, my dad was teaching me how to balance on my own when he tragically broke my training wheels.
I was pretty much forced to figure it out without my back up wheels.

A few days past by, and schedules got busier meanwhile I began to lose my drive to ride my bike. I never knew what was ahead of me and the many years I would continue to have to say, "Yeah, I don't know how to ride a bike."
People always gave me the "wide eyes and dropped jaws" look. I was never ashamed, I just looked at my "disability" as being my thing, my trademark.
Instead of cycling with the other kids, I would rollerblade around and I took it seriously.

Of course, I attempted to ride bikes here and there, but I could never seem to balance correctly. Gravity would always defy me and I'd tumble to my side.
I simply just gave up and accepted the fact that I would never ride a bicycle.
Until November 18, 2008.

Low and behold, after my first trip to the Pasadena Rosebowl, I began pedaling on my own.
My dad recently bought me a new bike, a youth bike just for training. He believed it would take me at least 2 weeks to fully learn how to ride a bike. I thought the bike was pretty cute because it was purple (my favorite color) and it said "Lady Goose" on the center part of the frame.
But after just 2 days, I am cycling all on my own, all on two wheels, balance and poised.

Now that I've finally mastered riding a bike, my dad has promised me to buy me a bicycle of my choice.
I've been debating between a beach cruiser or a road bike. So difficult.

My butt is sore, but let's ride.


Image Courtesy: Mongoose Bikes