Friday, January 18, 2013

How I Grew & Appreciated a City Bike

By Rob Sutter


You simply pick up on certain skills as you go through life. All of us may go about tying our shoes at different paces and the same can be said about figuring out how to make beds in our rooms. Nonetheless, I think it's almost a given that most, if not all, of us learned upon a bicycle. While I adore the idea of a city bike, I didn't have the easiest time picking up the skills but once I did, they were firmly implanted in my brain, not to be forgotten.

My struggles came from the fact that I had ridden a city bike with only the most limited amount of information in my brain. It was tough for me to recount information as it was told and sometimes I had to ask for it to be spoken again. My childhood certainly wasn't the easiest and when I fell with authority, I feel as though it made me all the more driven to try again. As I went through my life and picked up on certain facts, it didn't take me long to appreciate the benefits that authorities like Linus Bike could supply people with.

As my friends started to learn to ride bicycles, I found myself pressured to pick up on it as well. I think I stressed too much when it came to this and being able to move myself around on this unique machine was something that I sought as a goal. When it came to taking the training wheels off, the pressure was only amplified several times over because now a security blanket of sorts was stripped away from me. However, my comfort zone was one that I had to step out of in order to get better.

It goes without saying that a child goes through a great deal of difficulty when learning how to ride a bicycle. However, I'd make the argument that adults who hadn't learned, either through a sheltered life or otherwise, would have a much more trying experience. It's not the easiest task in the world to pick up on information when you're well into your thirties, for instance. I've seen people try, though, and their attempts were mostly met with success since they put so much work into the process.

As a child, learning proved to be a challenge for me because the ability to retain facts came rather slow for me. It was tough for my brain to go about attaining information but when I was able to, it was even harder for me to extract it from my memory banks. Being able to ride a bicycle to the utmost potential, though, was perhaps the most trying experience. I was able to gain a newfound appreciation for city bikes and it's one that stands with me to this day.




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