Muscle Memory

Stone Glider
Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
edited May 2011 in Road beginners
I probably read it on here, so it has to be right, that it takes up to seven years for your body to 'remember' how to pedal. Whilst this is a comfort to someone like me, who has only cycled for the last 4/5 years and has the souplisse of a bag of gravel; is there any truth in it?
The older I get the faster I was

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  • P_Tucker
    P_Tucker Posts: 1,878
    Top tip - if it sounds like bolleaux and cannot possibly be proved (or disproved) by science, then its probably bolleaux.
  • Dmak
    Dmak Posts: 445
    What? Surely you learned how to pedal before you were 5 years old?
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    Nah!
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • Old Tuggo
    Old Tuggo Posts: 482
    In my experience an unfit long term cyclist can usually do better than a fit novice.
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    My point, if it was a point, was that I had not ridden a bicycle for more than forty years before I started again. The reason I could ride at all was that I told myself that I had ridden and you never forget :? It was gruesome to watch and to do. Others I have talked to seem to have returned with more ease but hadn't left such a big gap of time. Certainly people who ride regularly but infrequently, appear to have a greater facility in a bike than me.
    The older I get the faster I was
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    You never forget. It's like riding a bike.

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