This is just what you need as an adult learning how to ride a bicycle.

Here is a neat article written by Mark Twain in the late 1800's.

Mark Twain explains the art of learning to ride a bicycle in hilarious detail.

Keep in mind that the bicycle he is trying to master was the Ordinary, as it was called in it's day. That was the bicycle with the man-sized front wheel and the teenie rear wheel.

It is fun to see that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Read on. It is in "Text with line breaks" format.

FORGET DOWNLOADING THE ATTACHEMENT. It is too difficult to read because there are no proper breaks. I found another source for the exact same article by Twain. Go to:
http://www.bicyclinglife.com/HowTo/TamingTheBicycle.htm