easy as riding a bike

at least that's what people say, only i am coming to find that riding a bike is not quite as easy as all that. i can ride a bike, i can't wait to ride the bike my sis gave me, it's sitting in the back room near the computer waiting to be ridden. i can't wait because i can't ride the bike until dylan can ride his bike by himself. i don't remember how i learned to ride a bike, but i know that somewhere along the way the training wheels on my E.T bike were taken off and i had to learn how to balance the bike on my own before moving on to what i call the orange beast (Huge banana seated thing with a sissy bar), eventually a neon green boys bmx bike, and eventually a hand-me-down 10 speed racing bike with the curved handlebars. Such is the history of my bike riding experience. but dylan had a little mongoose with training wheels when he was younger which he rarely got on because every time he did he would fall and start crying or flat out refuse to get on it when i wheeled it out. now he has a cool little bike given to him by his aunt and he has no idea how to balance on his own and i am having some trouble teaching him. yesterday and today we went out to the parking lot across the street and held him up while running alongside him. At first he was scared (shocker) but as we started moving faster he started to enjoy himself. my arms are killing me from holding him up and i got out of breath pretty quickly, which limits the amount of time he can spend out there. by the end of the third go today i seriously considered letting go to see how he would do, but decided not to because if he fell and got hurt he would never want to try again. i think it will take a few weeks of doing this to get him to a point where he will be comfortable with me letting go, i just don't want to screw things up by pushing too fast. i know he will get there if i can be patient. And once he can ride by himself, my bike will get to venture out too and we will ride together. haha, maybe we will start our own biker gang and make matching denim jackets with crazy patches and stuff. so in the mean time once you learn to ride a bike, it is always easy to ride a bike...but learning to ride a bike...not quite that easy.