Embarrassed to test ride in LBS

[wiseowl]

And here I thought I was the only one to have fallen during my first test ride! No one saw, but I came in bloody so they probably did the math. Most of my test rides I just left a driver's license with them and waltzed out the door with the bike and was on my own. The one time someone did watch, though, he was pretty helpful in teaching me how to start and stop on the bike better- I tried to launch to the side when stopping rather than the front.

After I said I was interested, then they put me on a trainer or someone held the bike to do the more detailed sizing. And after the real bike arrived, the same, but for longer, to do the fitting.

On the same infamous first ride I also put my helmet on backwards, though- do try NOT to do that! The LBS guy just beckoned me over, flipped it around, and sent me back out. Arg.