Wow, I've never had a post go two pages. Thanks for all the kind words. I really do think that once an adult gets on a bike they connect with some feelings that they had as a child.

We have a program in our town where you can borrow a bike for as long as you want but (and I'm not faulting the program here) they use low end bikes and just barely get them working. There's so many early 1990's mountain bikes out there that it's easy to find some high quality stuff and get it running again.

I think the best part about this is that all the new riders I've started are really happy even though their bikes don't have the latest carbon-fiber reninforced double butted titanium alloy water-bottle cage with lock-out. They just ride and it's cool.

Thanks again for the nice replys. Give someone a bike...it's like riding home from work with a tailwind!