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Hi, my name is Britton and we're gonna teach you how to ride a bicycle today!
The first thing you need to do is take off your bicycle pedals but we're not going to
do it in this video because it's some work, but you NEED to do it in real life. The second
thing you need to do is lower your seat so that both feet can touch the ground.
When you're getting ready to learn how to ride a bike, you need to head to a quiet street
or empty parking lot that's relatively flat.
The first thing you need to do is learn how to balance, and you do that by coasting. The
best way to learn how to coast is to put your feet on the ground and push yourself along
your parking lot or street. To coast, you put your feet on the ground and push off and
if the pedals are in the way, it's gonna hurt your feet and you're gonna get scraped up
and it's really annoying.
You may be wobbly and unbalanced at first but then you'll get the hang of it. Practice
the coasting and keep on doing it until you're good at it. After you've gotten the hang of
coasting, then we're gonna learn how to steer by doing an obstacle course. You can make
an obstacle course out of anything from cups to crackers, and sometimes it's fun to just
run over the crackers!
We're gonna learn the basics of steering by putting the cups in a straight line and just
turning a little bit to get around them. The next step of the obstacle course is to make
it wider and you turn more.
The wideness helps so that you can do sharper turns while you're riding a bike. Then, after
you master the obstacle course, you raise the seat up, put the pedals back on, and give
it a shot!
You could learn to ride a bicycle in three or four hours of one day, or it could take
ten or fifteen minutes each day for over the course of a week.
There's no right or wrong amount of time that it takes to learn how to ride your bike. The
main thing is to have fun and to learn how to ride a bike!