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The Goal of the One Bicycle
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I believe that everyone can learn to ride a bicycle. Their desire and goal to accomplish in riding the bicycle can allow the learners to eventually finish his or her task.
On the first day I decided to ride my bike, my father came to detach the training wheels on my bicycle. The bicycle was wobbly without those training wheels. My goal to ride a bicycle was not exactly determined like the unsteadiness of the wheels. My father held the back of the bicycle to secure me from not falling. I kept my pace and repeated going in straight lines. After about an hour, I was riding it decently. I didn’t stop when I was unsteady but I couldn’t go freely without my father’s help. MY father always told me he would hold me tight when I fell down. As I was going down the track, I assumed my father was holding on. My bicycle suddenly felt light as if something dropped from my bicycle. I stopped and looked back. My father was about 8 ft away from me. Then I noticed my father had let go of the back of the bicycle. I had finished riding the bicycle in a straight track.
As time passed b, I learned step by step in bicycle riding. I learned how to turn and get on the bike without falling down. TO accomplish this goal it took sweat and bruises; however, I feel proud and confident that I had finished this task.
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