Sorry, I posted this in the wrong section of this forum, if anyone knows how to delete that thread, it would be awesome.
So this is the right place to post this:
I joined this forum to break this fear of cycling that I have. I have quite poor balance skills, but I remember as a kid I used to LOVE cycling, I mean, it was so fun to be able to get to places with no car but on a bike and pretty fast too. I didn't cycle too often but loved it when I did.
I was cycling around my local area one day and I went down a down-hill driveway. There were cars parked at the bottom and my bike started careening out of control, going too fast for me to control. I thought I'd crash into the cars at the bottom and seriously started panicking and turned my bike to the side to purposefully throw myself off the bike so I wouldn't crash into the cars. I didn't fall too hard but I really injured my hand. I could see the meat :O anyway, since that day, I never rode again. I was 11 at the time.
I decided to try biking again when I was 14/15 and told myself to get over it. I wasnt seriously scared or anything, I was in a local park with my dad and he helped me to balance myself as I'd apparently forgotten how to ride. Funny, I know!
Anyway, I haven't ridden a bike again since that day in the park because I can never seem to balance properly on it. All the bikes I've tried to sit on feel waay too big - the wheels feel huge and I can never seem to balance on them properly. I have an in-built fear of losing my balance and injuring myself which prevents me from even trying to ride a bike as if I can't even balance properly on it, I will inevitably injure myself
Anyone got any advice? I've tried 24" wheels which still feel way too big and I'm 5"5 going 5"6 but the 24" feels too big.
I'm a woman by the way, and at my height, 24" should be fine. I reckon I could ride a kids bike alright without unbalancing myself but it wouldn't support my weight, right?
So this is the right place to post this:
I joined this forum to break this fear of cycling that I have. I have quite poor balance skills, but I remember as a kid I used to LOVE cycling, I mean, it was so fun to be able to get to places with no car but on a bike and pretty fast too. I didn't cycle too often but loved it when I did.
I was cycling around my local area one day and I went down a down-hill driveway. There were cars parked at the bottom and my bike started careening out of control, going too fast for me to control. I thought I'd crash into the cars at the bottom and seriously started panicking and turned my bike to the side to purposefully throw myself off the bike so I wouldn't crash into the cars. I didn't fall too hard but I really injured my hand. I could see the meat :O anyway, since that day, I never rode again. I was 11 at the time.
I decided to try biking again when I was 14/15 and told myself to get over it. I wasnt seriously scared or anything, I was in a local park with my dad and he helped me to balance myself as I'd apparently forgotten how to ride. Funny, I know!
Anyway, I haven't ridden a bike again since that day in the park because I can never seem to balance properly on it. All the bikes I've tried to sit on feel waay too big - the wheels feel huge and I can never seem to balance on them properly. I have an in-built fear of losing my balance and injuring myself which prevents me from even trying to ride a bike as if I can't even balance properly on it, I will inevitably injure myself
Anyone got any advice? I've tried 24" wheels which still feel way too big and I'm 5"5 going 5"6 but the 24" feels too big.
I'm a woman by the way, and at my height, 24" should be fine. I reckon I could ride a kids bike alright without unbalancing myself but it wouldn't support my weight, right?