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My friends taught me how to ride, and I even managed to do it somewhat. Then we decided to ride through the park; we have a circular path for wheeled vehicles almost around the entire perimeter of the park. One section has a rather noticeable slope with a turn in the middle. On this slope, I accelerated so much that I had to fall onto the asphalt; otherwise, I would have crashed into a tree. I limped on both legs for a week, and on one toe, the nail died and peeled off. Since then, no more bicycles, only roller skates, only hardcore. Wheels on your feet are somehow calmer than an awkward and uncontrollable pile of scrap metal.

As a child, I once crashed into a house while riding and fell off. And about 15 years ago, I went to a riding area with my brother, practiced for maybe 2 hours, and already felt quite comfortable in the saddle. Two years later, I had to learn again when I decided to go for a ride with some new friends... I fell once, of course (not my fault), but in the end, I remembered everything and rode relatively well, although there were a couple of dangerous moments. Now, I would have to learn again, and it's not certain that I would be successful.

Wow, you learned to ride a bike with training wheels as a kid, and now you're doing great. I still hurt my knee last year, but I just got tired; I was riding 50 km to Dubna...

I won't try to make you feel worse; this mode of transport isn't the only option, and in the city, it's not very convenient, especially in Moscow without the infrastructure and with so many cars/pedestrians everywhere, and I never understood the point of riding around in circles in a park. But riding somewhere far away, to the Volga, for example, to see the sights, and then returning by train late at night... That's quite pleasant; you wouldn't be able to do that on roller skates or on foot, and it's boring in a car, but a bike is perfect for those situations.

As a kid, I almost ran over some overweight women. Three of them were walking, completely blocking a wide road, and I didn't even know how to brake properly yet. I honked at them from a distance, they turned around, looked at me for a couple of seconds, and then, at the same slow pace, lazily turned back and continued their leisurely walk, not even thinking about clearing 10 cm of the road, probably assuming I would drive around them through the sand and bushes, and they got instant karma.
And once in Moscow, when I was young, I hit a tourist, an old woman, and I was drunk. They called the tourist police, but the guy couldn't be bothered, so he slowly walked away, and I drove off.

But I've probably already told both of these stories.

Where did I first hear the Moonlight Sonata?



Probably, only Arandor will understand.

and I understood.

When I was 5 or 6 years old, a family of mentally ill people lived above us. The father in that family played this game every day. Then he died.

May he rest in peace.

What a bunch of idiots these cyclists are. Not the ones who ride for fun once a week or a month, but the ones who use this archaic mode of transport as their primary means of getting around. And it would be fine if they just rode and didn't cause a nuisance, but no, through their "urbanist" friends, they've filled the cities with these damn bike lanes. In small European cities, there's already no space, and now they're making bike lanes for two and a half people in a city of a million, it's a complete disaster.

And sometimes, right in the middle of cities, they put rows of bicycles, and anyone can rent them. This is definitely the case in Moscow. In our city of Tula, I haven't seen any bicycles, but there are a lot of scooters; I often come across abandoned scooters in the middle of an empty street in a residential area. In the city center, near shopping centers, there's a whole parking lot of scooters, the entire street is yellow.

Go ahead and play, who's stopping you? I would play too, but there's some kind of complex system there.

scooters

An invention that makes you look over your shoulder while walking on the sidewalk, as if you were walking on the road.

I used to ride a tricycle when I was a kid. I tried riding a two-wheeled bike a few times, but I fell badly. Then, one day, we went to school on Traktorny Street. There, my friend and I swapped bikes for a while. He sat on my tricycle, and I sat on his two-wheeled bike. And I started riding it without any problems. It was the first time I enjoyed riding a two-wheeled bike!

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Now I want to learn how to ride a unicycle, a gyro scooter, a skateboard, including an electric one, skates, roller skates, including electric ones, Segways, and electric scooters. Out of all of these, I've only tried riding skates – it didn't work out – and a gyro scooter, for about 5 minutes. During that time, at the end, I could barely stand on it in an unnatural pose and move at a speed of about 0.3 km/h, but not quite in the direction I wanted.

P. S. And I'd also like to take a ride on an electric bicycle, a moped, or a motorcycle, including those with electric motors.

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And yesterday, I saw an electric bus in real life for the first time.

These days, bike paths are taking on an unexpected significance after the widespread adoption of scooters – at least now we can get these guys off the sidewalks and onto the designated paths where they are available.

You're 2 meters and 60 centimeters tall – go ahead and play them, what's stopping you?