Stories on This Week’s Prompt

Learning to ride a bike can teach you some key lifelong lessons. That's what my red rocket did.

This story makes more sense if you know a little about the mechanics of riding a mountain bike. Think of a catcher [...]
learning to ride a bicycle
im under 10 living in Miami. visiting younger cousins who live in central Maine. I have never ridden a bike. despite their [...]

My friend Alice The summer we bought our weekend house in a Connecticut community friends invited us to lunch and introduced [...]

Suddenly I sensed more freedom and realized that my dad had let go of the bike.

They say you never forget how to ride—it is, after all, “just like riding a bicycle”.

When I was little, nobody offered to run along behind me to teach me to ride a bike. This is not so surprising.

I must have been around 7 or 8 when I got my first bike, a Schwinn 3 speed with silver fenders and a head light similar to [...]

I love to bike; always have and, hopefully, always will. But I have also always had two biking “nemeses”: hills [...]
New Stories on Old Prompts

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One day back in 1976 a German shepherd came out of nowhere to show up at our kitchen door. He was not emaciated; he looked [...]
Prompted By Pets
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Yes, I've chatted with the great beyond.
Prompted By The Great Beyond
August 5, 2022
Think back about …
Riding a Bicycle
Before we could drive, a bicycle was the way many of us got around. In more recent years, we may have ridden a bike for exercise, to save on the cost of gas for our cars, or just for fun. Think back … how did you learn to ride a bike? Did you teach your kids? Have you ever had a scary experience caused by a bicycle, either yours or someone else’s? Share your Riding a Bicycle stories forward. (Image courtesy of https://www.tredz.co.uk/)Refer a Friend to Retrospect Beta
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