Hi and welcome. I'm another returning after a hiatus (more like 40+ years of hiatus, during which I rode horses a lot) and had never ridden anything but a single-speed, balloon-tired, coaster brake bike...now on a Giant Sedona DXW with more gears than I'll ever use, hand brakes, a bike computer and a rear-view mirror and lovin' it. I ride on very-small-town narrow streets and out on 80 acres of land (grass, dirt, a bit of rock.) It's taken me some months to get in condition to get in condition (that's an intentional repeat) and learn to ride this very different bike, but things are moving faster now. Am lucky in the local winter weather (though frankly if we'd get rain for two weeks, we'd all be much happier...serious drought here.)