65 years old woman learns how to ride a bike

Jenni Murray at 65 learns  how to drive a bike , she said "There I was, astride my shiny new bike,

shaking in wobbly terror. My son Ed stood solicitously behind me, hand poised, ready to grab the seat if wobble threatened to become tumble.

'Just take it nice and steady, Mum,' he said. 'One foot on the pedal. Look ahead and push forward. Just a little push, you can do it. I'm here, right behind you.'

Then it struck me: 'Hang on a minute!' I thought, 'this isn't right. Isn't this what I was doing for him, when was it, five minutes ago?'

Actually it was 31 years ago when Ed was learning to balance on his first two-wheeler. And now the roles are reversed.

It was my sons' idea that a bike would be good for me. I hadn't cycled for 20 years, but they clearly remembered riding on the back of my old bike when they were little - wicker basket on the front, child seat behind and off we'd pop to the shops, free and easy.

It was me who taught them to ride on Clapham Common - trikes first, then two wheelers with stabilisers, then that heart-stopping, proud moment when the stabilisers are off, you let go of the back of the seat and watch as your child shoots off at speed and in complete confidence."