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On this page, Strickland writes about how the bike is the first vehicle we master and that it teaches us to balance life. From my childhood I did not master how to ride a bike and today I barely can bike straight and turn at an angle greater than 30 degrees. My first vehicle I mastered and consider a vehicle is Public Transit. I think  the difference lies in that when I tried to learn to ride a bike I often had to learn by myself. This happened in school and other situations where my parents gave me little to no assistance. I fell enough times that I didn’t try to ride a bike again until I was 13 years old, and my 8 year old sister taught me. In middle school, I had the privilege of wandering the city of Portland during daylight and that was when I familiarized myself with public transit, which is  why I consider it as my first mastered vehicle.