Wheeling in the years: You’re never too old to learn to ride a bike
I HATED the phrase ‘it’s as easy as riding a bike’ because, until last year, I had not learned to cycle. ! Why? I was the youngest child, so possibly my parents forgot, and, at five, the age most children learn, I broke my arm. When I was a teenager, wobbling on a bike wasn’t ‘cool’ and I thought I would never zip down country lanes or have cycling holidays in France — that is, until I had daughters.
My husband, Ed, taught all three of our girls to cycle, by attaching a tagalong to his own bike, so they could learn balance, and then by using bikes with stabilisers. Last year, when the children were at school and he was working from home, Ed convinced me that I, too, could learn to cycle.
