Originally Posted by
goldfinch
What a tough start! Do you have a safer place to ride where you aren't going to get run off the road? If you get a mountain bike get one with a fork you can lock out and put slicks on it for riding the streets.
I've lived with the motto what doesn't kill us makes us stronger and alot of that week I blame on my own lack of experience riding in a city... Where I grew up there aren't even sidewalks now I'm in the middle of Dallas. I rode nothing but dirt bikes till age 12 when I outgrew them my folks got me a 10speed road bike that I couldn't stand. The next year I bought a 250 street and trail motor cycle and tossed the bicycle in the trash. Thanks for the info on the locking fork for the mountain bike.
Keep on pedaling!