Originally Posted by jenbike

Thanks for the replies! I like this forum a lot

We put air in the tires today and I rode it around the streets a little bit. It felt absolutely awesome to be on a bicycle again after so many years of nonriding! The seat is a tad high and it is more noticible now that I was actually riding.. my balance was a little off at first (do I really have to relearn how to ride a bike at age 33, after spending so much of my kid-to-mid-teens life on one!?) but it is mostly my nervousness at being a bit too high up to flatfoot the ground and the brakes. Now, they work a little but not as strongly as I want.

Can't stress how FUN it was to ride again. No car keys.. no worries about burning gasoline and $.. just the pure sheer joy of it.