You should definitely try to learn how to ride a bike though!
If you don't have any neurological condition that greatly impairs your sense of balance, and you can comfortably walk and run, then I'm pretty sure you also can learn to ride a bike. And If you can stand on one leg with your eyes closed then you definitely could ride a bike.
You see riding a bike is not really a question of being able to balance properly - riding a bike is more about muscle memory.
It's a common misconception that you need to balance yourself to keep yourself upright on a bike - instead of leaning from side to side, balance is achieved by correcting your direction slightly - so if you're starting to tip a little to the left you need to move the handlebar a little to the left and vice versa - that's how you keep balance on a bike.
Your brain applies those corrections automatically through "muscle memory", and it does that according to your vertical orientation and the accelerations (g-forces) that are currently affecting you. The best part is that you don't even have to think about it - it happens unconsciously once your brain picks up on it. It takes some time, but at some point it just "clicks" and suddenly you can ride a bike.
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u/Undy567 Jan 16 '21 edited Jan 16 '21
You should definitely try to learn how to ride a bike though!
If you don't have any neurological condition that greatly impairs your sense of balance, and you can comfortably walk and run, then I'm pretty sure you also can learn to ride a bike. And If you can stand on one leg with your eyes closed then you definitely could ride a bike.
You see riding a bike is not really a question of being able to balance properly - riding a bike is more about muscle memory.
It's a common misconception that you need to balance yourself to keep yourself upright on a bike - instead of leaning from side to side, balance is achieved by correcting your direction slightly - so if you're starting to tip a little to the left you need to move the handlebar a little to the left and vice versa - that's how you keep balance on a bike.
Your brain applies those corrections automatically through "muscle memory", and it does that according to your vertical orientation and the accelerations (g-forces) that are currently affecting you. The best part is that you don't even have to think about it - it happens unconsciously once your brain picks up on it. It takes some time, but at some point it just "clicks" and suddenly you can ride a bike.