Can't ride bikes .. I've tried.
Partly it's that I have an urge not to die so it seems like a silly thing to do down steep hills .. riding on a small piece of tin that's been lightly coated with oil on it's jagged bits that like to leap off and bite your ankles occasionally: aka: chains.
"Say," someone says to me "Let's go riding in the hills."
But what I hear is:
"Say, let us put ourselves on a rickety contraption that I am constantly repairing and hurtle ourselves down what is essentially a cliff face and almost assuredly to our doom."
I'm talking real bikes, mind you, not motorbikes. Motorbikes I trust much more. They are larger, usually someone else is doing all the work (in my case) but even so mostly it's just hang on and it will take you where it thinks you need to go 
Okay, you do need balance, but for me it's easier on a motorbike. I think that's because my arse is crooked and theirs is larger to make up the difference.
But mostly, in regards to my non-bike riding, it's a matter of being dizzy from allergies and having bad balance and depth perception as a result plus being wobbly on the seat. And around traffic? Forget it!
But if it was a nice country lane or bike trail somewhere where hardly anyone went and no one would sneak up behind me and yell "Your left!" and startle me, I might try again.
When they yell that I always duck or swerve to my left.. kind of like the way when someone yells "Duck" I go down and tuck my head under as is the prescribed method.
They don't yell "Coming at you straight in front of you about to hit your face." in the army, for instance. When they want you down they yell "Down!" They tell you where you should end up!
But the bike trail is all opposite. They tell you where they want to be .. they can keep that information to themselves! If I wasn't there when they showed up, chances are I have no intent to be.
What would happen if someone were on a bike trail and yelled "Possum!" Would everyone rush to the nearest treeline and hang themselves off a branch?
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