If you raise the bike seat, would that help you balance better? What exactly would help you balance better and ride the bike better?|||You have to have a bike that fits, first off. Bring your bike to the shop and ask them to fit you to it. It might mean buying a longer/shorter stem (the metal piece that clamps to the handlebars) and a better fitting seat/different seatpost. Also, longer, higher handlebars will give you more control over the bike, but don't go too overboard with them.
Raising the seat might help you, and might not. It depends on your height/inseam/etc...
PRACTICE. Namely, practice trackstands. Trackstands are balancing on your bike while keeping your bike as still as possible...check it out...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCIFTItyT0w
Take a trip to your bike shop and ask them to fit you to your bike. Along with just riding and getting to know your bike. Best advice I have.
Tim|||Lolz start with training wheels. Then have somebody hold onto you when your not using training wheels.|||Have someone teach you how to ride rollers. If you can do that you'll be able to ride outside.|||First I would lower my seat if I were you. Then I would find a parking lot that is empty and practice there. What you should do is stand up on the bike and ride very slowly; eventually you should try to come to a complete stop. When you come to a stop try to balance on your bike by turning the front wheel back and forth. If you start to fall to the left turn your wheel to the right and vice versa. When you can鈥檛 hold it anymore let go of your brakes and pedal just to give your self a little momentum so you don't have to go down. Then repeat the process again. Another trick is to bounce a little when you鈥檙e trying to balance, or if you try to come to a stop facing up hill try to keep your bike moving back and forth. Do this by pushing the pedal to move forward about an inch or so then letting the bike roll back an inch or so, repeat this for as long as you can.
One way I learned better balance was to ride in a very tight area and see how long you can stay on the bike with out putting a foot down. My friend has a large garage filled with wood working equipment, in the winter time we use to take turns riding his bike around the two big tables in the middle of the garage. We made a game were you could use your hands to hold on to something but their was a 15 second time limit, and if you put your foot down then you had to give the bike to the next rider. We made this game up because we were board over the winter. We never really thought it would improve our riding skills but now I can balance as long as I want at traffic stops. I hope all this info helped.|||From the way you added a few comments it seems you are new to biking. To learn to ride and get your sense of balance first set your seat low so you can touch the ground. Once you get good at riding you can raise it up. Next find an area that is down hill, nothing steep but enough to help you roll with no pedaling. Roll down till you are comfortable with balancing with your feet off the pedals, than next with them on. As you get better add pedaling and move on to flat ground.
Enjoy the ride.|||For Bikes, it is much easier to balance when you are going faster than going slower. That is part of the difficulty in first learning how to bike. You don't want to bike too fast in fear of falling, yet if you bike too slowly, it becomes very difficult to balance. The more experience biking you have, the slower you can bike without falling off.
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Like any other sport, there is no way to circumvent practice. I suggest that you find a open parking lot or some other type of smooth flat surface. Try to jump start and go as fast as you can. Then you will realize that once you start moving at a reasonable pace, biking is about as hard as standing up without falling.|||Here is a few tricks I teach my kids, find a small curb in a parking lot, try to find one with angles near the top and not just square, place your front wheel against the curb, keep your cranks and pedal horizontal with the ground (your pedals should be the same height from the ground), now place your foot on the pedal that is closests to the curb, press down on the front pedal just a little (if you have a rear brake, now is the time to use it, not your front brake, just your rear one), keep your front tire and handlebars going straight, now slowly lift your other foot of the ground just a little, try to balance for a little while, try not to put your foot back on the ground. Once this is working for you and you fell pretty good, try placing your foot on the pedal, keep pressing down on the front pedal and holding your rear brake, try to balance as long a possible, when you fell like your a going to fall over put your foot down and try again. Start sitting on your seat, as your balance improves try standing up while balancing, you will still push down with your front foot and use your rear brake. As you get better, pull up on your front wheel and try to go over the curb, as you go over the curb you will get enough power from you front foot pedaling, try to get your rear foot to the front, stop pedaling and roll your rear tire over the curb. This little trick is used for my bmx racers kids, we use it to help in the starting gate. If you do not have a parking curb, a fence, a wall can also be used, you will just use balance and not worry about going forward. If you think you might need to use training wheels, only use them on one side and move them up as soon a spossible. Also some bikes are easy to change gears, try using the smallest front ring and the biggest rear ring, this will make it very easy to pedal and you can work on balance instead of trying to get your bike going. Put your seat up will work to a point, if you put your seat to high and you must fall over to put your feet on the ground, then you will be thinking of how to get off your bike and not get hurt. Try to put your seat low enough so that you can put both your feet flat on the ground when seated. You can take a trick from figure skating, draw circles with chalk and try to follow them, try to make smaller circles each time, have fun while riding and make riding fun and your balance will improve.
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