Unsolicited advice? I don't recall getting any. But I have such poor kinaesthetic awareness, I have a hard time following even welcome advice on how to do things like swing a bat or a golf club, so I can't usually say whether their advice is correct or not; I would only say it's often useless because I don't know how to follow it. An exception that sort of proves the rule is that someone advised me to shift to two smaller cogs before standing to pedal; I could figure out how to do that and it worked.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to successfully execute a bunny hop, but as far as cycling in general goes, I guess I'm not a total klutz, because no one has ever offered suggestions to correct my pedal stroke. That's not to say I haven't been yelled at - but that's usually for doing things which, upon reflection, I realize I shouldn't do. Also, I have been kidded a bit about how upright I tend to ride, but no one has yet suggested that my bike doesn't fit or that I should try something different.