Re: Bike riding......? for all.
The other problem you have to contend with is learning to use the controls, learning to stop, learning where to ride, learning to look for hazards such as traffic. Even if we are just teching them to ride across a parking lot, the adult will learn faster hands down. I am not sure that Frasier episode is a good indicator of actual adults learning to ride bikes, but it was pretty funny.<br /><br />I taught my daughter to ride, and it was a long grueling process, trying to teach how to stop, balance, and all that. Kids learn through wiring and rewireing their brains without a conscious knowledge of doing it. An adult will look at the bike and say "I need to keep balance, lean in turns, etc". I am an avid cyclist, and I have had some fun trying to teach adults how to ride the more complicated multi speed bikes (they only have riden single speed bikes), and it can be a bear sometimes, but they still figure it out faster than trying to teach a child to use proper gearing and all that. Granted, a child has a single speed bike with pedal brake, but a lot of adults have never riden a modern multi-speed bike. Then there is teaching an adult how to use and set up a full suspension mountain bike. Oh lord that is fun....
