[HN Gopher] Learning how to ride a bike
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Learning how to ride a bike
Author : john-doe
Score : 16 points
Date : 2021-12-10 16:39 UTC (1 days ago)
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| polyterative wrote:
| Honestly the whole idea of training wheels always seemed wrong to
| me
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| it worked for me. one day it was decided I was too old to keep
| using training wheels (when I was 4 or 5, can't remember), and
| they got taken off. I remember it being easy.
| zadwang wrote:
| I learned how to ride a bike when a young kid sticking one leg
| inside the triangle frame of the large adult bike. Kind of
| dangerous now looking back but I still remember the liberating
| feeling of more mobility.
| tosh wrote:
| Alan Kay on learning: https://youtube.com/watch?v=50L44hEtVos
| 123pie123 wrote:
| Having had the pleasure in training three kids on how to ride a
| bike, forget training wheels, or taking the pedals off!
|
| find a reasonable long grass hill - not to too steep, but steep
| enough to allow a kid to go down the hill riding the bike with
| out pedalling.
|
| and then goto the top of the hill and let them go down the hill
| on the bike. Once they master the balancing part of going down,
| they seem to pick up the art of turning the pedals at the end of
| the hill to keep going (if not, explain what to do)
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| advantages: doesn't hurt when they fall off, gets them used to
| rough terrain. it becomes fun once they start to master the
| balancing bit
| mmmBacon wrote:
| Started all 3 of my kids on a balance bike at age 2. All my kids
| could ride a regular bike by the time they were 3. It occurred to
| me that they will never remember not knowing how to ride a bike.
| Also it's amazing to me how quickly they all learned. Conversely,
| I couldn't ride a bike without training wheels until I was maybe
| 7 or 8.
|
| OT, the longer I work in technology the more amazed I am at the
| capability of biological systems.
| avip wrote:
| This is how writing should be done.
|
| First - you throw out your main idea.
|
| Then - you stop, put a period, and hit publish.
|
| If only all web content was like this post!
| hervature wrote:
| Cycling, along with swimming, are the two activities I give that
| exemplifies how poor people are at explaining what they are
| doing. For cycling, most people will adamantly claim that to turn
| left, you first turn the handle bars to the left. When they show
| me on a bike, they are surprised that they never noticed that
| they turn the handlebars right first. The funny part is, even
| people who know this and know it is called "countersteering"
| proceed to explain it in such a way that is actually less
| insightful than just telling someone to turn left. Almost no one
| mentions that the goal of a turn is to get the correct lean to a
| bike.
|
| With swimming, I did 7 years of lessons and never enjoyed
| swimming. My legs always got fatigued in a couple of minutes and
| could not go as fast as others. It did not matter how many good
| swimmers or instructors I told this to. It was not until a fellow
| engineer at university told me that your arms are what propel you
| forward and your legs simply keep you afloat. Such a simple
| statement did more than all those years of lessons.
|
| It is amusing to think about that, even with the best intentions,
| sometimes being taught something is the worst thing that can
| happen for you to actually learn it.
| rocketbop wrote:
| Well, really you _lean_ left more than you turn the
| handlebars...
| stefan_ wrote:
| _Telling_ someone how to steer a bike is useless and plain
| unnecessary. You teach them to balance and they will naturally
| counter-steer. There is no theory class.
| pmdulaney wrote:
| Yes, this is a post about learning how to ride a bike -- not
| learning how to ride a bike as a metaphor for something else.
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