‘I am good’: Joe Biden falls from bike but is unhurt

• US President Joe Biden was riding his bicycle near his beach home in Delaware.
• A White House pool report says there were no visible scrapes or bruises from the fall.
• Biden’s health is the subject of constant attention as speculation rises on whether he will seek a second term.

US President Joe Biden was riding his bicycle near his beach home in Delaware on Saturday morning when he fell, but he was uninjured.

A video from a White House pool report showed the 79-year-old president standing up immediately after falling. “I’m fine,” he says later.

He had stopped to talk to onlookers while biking with First Lady Jill Biden in a state park near their beach home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

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The president told a small crowd of well-wishers and reporters that he had lost his balance as he tried to pull a foot out of a bike clip.

The result: “a mad scramble of Secret Service and press,” a White House pool report said, adding there were no visible scrapes or bruises from the fall.

“No medical attention is needed,” a White House official said. “The President looks forward to spending the rest of the day with his family.”

As the oldest US president, Biden’s health is the subject of constant attention, particularly as speculation rises on whether he will seek a second term in 2024.

In November 2020, shortly after his election but before taking office, Biden broke a foot while playing with his pet German shepherds.

But a year later, in November 2021, his doctor gave Biden a clean bill of health, describing him as “healthy” and “vigorous.”

Taking a few questions from reporters on Saturday, Biden said he was “in the process of making up my mind” about easing some Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods in order to soften inflationary pressures.

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He stated that he would speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping soon.

When asked if he was satisfied with progress on gun legislation in the aftermath of mass shootings in Texas and New York, Biden said only that he was pleased with action by his home state of Delaware, which passed a ban on assault-style weapons.