Can you swim and ride a bike?

[Ferne88]

I kind of assumed that most adults (save for those prevented from doing so by health reasons) could swim and ride a bike, but my friend reckons not.

So can you swim (so by that I mean at least a 50 meter length) and ride a bike?

Yes, I'm not brilliant at either but can do both.

Yes, and so can DH

Yes but not at the same time.

Yes, like you I think most people can.

I can ride a bike but I can’t swim

Yes. Although not both at the same time.

DH can’t swim. Has tried to learn. Can’t reliably ride a bike.

Both my DC (18 and 20) can swim and ride a bike

Yes, I don’t know any adults personally who can’t do both.

Yes, I’m early 50’s
DM early 70’s can’t swim, but can ride a bike.

Yes. Both

Yes, both. Confident in both.

Yes to both.

Beat me to it 😂

Yes but I'm unfit and slow

Yes both. Now 53 yet can still remember my dgm taking me to choose my first bike!! And the terrifying Miss Smith who taught me to swim...

Yep, competently but my walking isn't great so I've had to take both up more.

I can do both.

Although I'd be pretty miserable by the end of a 50 metre swim. I hate swimming now it's no longer larking around in the pool and you're supposed to be an adult who does boring lengths.

I could (can't now due to disability). Both were skills I made sure my dc could do. Swimming lessons was non negotiable.

Yes. Not that keen on either, but can do both. Dh is great at both. In fact he's doing a triathlon this weekend!

Yes to both.
Neither of my parents can swim though. (Well I think my mum can do a token bit of breaststroke).

I can do both, my partner can’t swim & nor can my brother but both can ride bikes.

Yes to both. I'd imagine it's quite a rarity for someone to not be able to do both

I think I'm a rarity but I can't do either. I mean I can but very very poorly. Swimming I can maybe a length or two and that's it because I have very bad back issues. I struggle with riding a bike for similar reasons.

Dh is confident in both though and is the one who taught our 3 children!

In the U.K. most schools have had swimming lessons for at least the last 40 years and it's on the national curriculum that children should be able to swim 25 metres.

Part of this is about preventing drowning,
I'd expect most adults in the U.K. to be able to swim.

Riding a bike is common in childhood but probably less widespread.

I can do both bit not brilliantly and I don’t enjoy it, my do can’t swim - nor can any of his family! My dc can do both

I can now but I learned to swim as an adult - I couldn't even tread water so a kind friend taught me that, then a colleague taught me how to do breaststroke head out of water (we worked at a beach hotel).

Eventually I took lessons in my mid-30s and can swim "properly" now. But I'd been afraid of putting my head under water all my life so it was a big thing to overcome (I can't even bear water running down my face in the shower!).

Theoretically we had swimming lessons at school, but they were often cancelled or moved and I was tall for my age so just used to put my foot on the bottom all the time.