Originally Posted by noisebeam
Did you just throw yourself out there and hope for the best, learning from you mistakes?
Yup, that pretty much covers what happened the day after Dad took the training wheels off. For those who started riding as adults, they usually already had some kind of driver training and experience driving, so were far from being ignorant of the rules of the road or at any major risk by learning how to apply them to riding a bicycle. They also have places off-road to practice, like empty parking lots, parks, trails and those nasty bike paths and MUPs.
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