Why is it that you never forget how to ride a bike?

Answer 1

i think you might get out of practice if you dont ride for many years. if you lay in bed for several years, you wont be able to jump out and start sprinting.

im sure there is some science to it also. the movements used in riding a bike are stored in a certain part of the brain that wont ever delete that information. it becomes a "memory movement" and you dont even have to think about it to do it. im not a doctor so i wouldnt know.

Answer 2

Because the skills of riding a bike is kept in the long-term memory section of our brains. Even when you're twenty-three, you'll remember your multiplications and divisions, because you've made use of them regularly during your learning years. This stores into your long-term part of your memory, and after all these years, you'll still remember what is 7 times 7. Same as bicycling. When you first started off, you forced yourself to stay in balance, for fear of falling down (who in their right minds enjoy falling, anyway?). Like the multiplication tables, you memorised the feelings and different techniques you used to keep yourself balanced. Because it was you alone who could keep yourself off the ground, you tried hard to keep in balance, and once you do, you'll hardly ever fall down again. It's sort of an instinct thing as well: after all these years, seeing a bike means not falling. When you sit on your bicycle, the feelings come back, the skills you've honed or made use of while biking comes into play immediately. Yup. Mostly it's because you bothered to keep the skills in your long-term memory in your brain. And skills, when in that part of the memory, are very hard to erase or forget :)

Answer 3

its like inserting a condom, shooting a 3-point hoop, riding a surfboard, and throwing a frizbee with your best chum----its simply FUN when you just get it right! The cerebral mind automatically just feels the rhythm and when you glide----then you feel the RUSH! Got that ?

Answer 4

It's just one of those things you don't forget like walking, eating, talking etc.

Answer 5

cause its cool... i ride a unicycle and my dad got on it after 30 years and could still ride.

Answer 6

I think it has something to do with balance..I mean, like swimming, if you can get the method right, you pretty much remember all your life.

Answer 7

Something held in long term memory...

Answer 8

because it is easy, and just need to be experienced correctly that first time...it's like learning where your school is at ...once you go, you know where it is

Answer 9

its like wlaking u never 4get

Answer 10

memory