Returning to road cycling after 19 years...Yikes!

[KSH]

Welcome to TE! That's great that you are getting back into cycling.

Yea... don't worry about your "vintage" bike... I have a "vintage" 2002 Cervelo.

[Tuckervill]

I have a vintage Fuji S-10-S which I plan to ride wherever it will take me, once I get it redone. Love me some vintage steel.

Karen

[makbike]

Welcome! I'm still riding the bike I purchased in 1984 (Univega). Enjoy your vintage bike. I'm also still using the Cateye computer(Cateye Solar II) I purchased then as well. Both the bike and computer often stop other cyclists in their tracks as they look and look again like they can't believe what they are seeing. Hey, they both work and I love them. Have a great time on your bike.

[SouthernBelle]

Welcome!

I agree that sooner or later you'll probably be converted to clipless, esp. if you are going to compete. But if you plan on buying a new bike in the future, I'd wait and go clipless then. You'll have a regular shoe bike and a bike shoe bike. That's what I did.

[Dianyla]

I agree that sooner or later you'll probably be converted to clipless, esp. if you are going to compete. But if you plan on buying a new bike in the future, I'd wait and go clipless then. You'll have a regular shoe bike and a bike shoe bike. That's what I did.

Or you can get a two-sided pedal that has a clip-in side and a plain platform side like these: Shimano PD-M324

[SouthernBelle]

Or you can get a two-sided pedal that has a clip-in side and a plain platform side like these: Shimano PD-M324

True that, though they drive me nuts. You can also get little platforms that clip into the pedal. Mine came with.

[Fredwina]

True that, though they drive me nuts. You can also get little platforms that clip into the pedal. Mine came with.

Another option is the M545. It has platforms and clips on both sides. I have the M324s on my Bike Friday, and I almost always wind up on the "wrong" side of the pedals

[RoadRaven]

Always great to hear/read about another woman coming back to cycling

I was 19 when I last rode, and 39 when I started again...

Welcome to the forum - this is a wonderful group of very supportive women with a huge range of information on every aspect of cycling I could have thought of (and since joining, many aspects I had not known about also!)

See you on the board