I guess Maybe I have stayed true to form.. I like road bikes.. My first bike was a 10 speed English Racer stye bike. That was a lot of years ago.. Can't remember the manufacturer.. 10 speed that was pretty impressive. All you would need when you were a kid and in the flat mid-west.. I can recall riding it on the back roads as far as Ann Arbor. That would be about 30 miles round trip..
Don't think I ever told my folks.. Remember when they would ask, what did you do all day... Nothing.. They probably would have thought the roads were too busy for a kid.. Probably, Very early teens.