I ride through the grass in my yard to get to the gate every time I leave the house. We're lucky enough not to have goatheads in Arkansas. If we had those, I never would leave clear pavement.

I do avoid broken glass on the road, and I did take my road bike on the Katy Trail which is hard packed small gravel (there's a name and I can't remember what it is) with no problems at all. In the '70s, I took my 10 speeds everywhere I wanted to go. I hardly ever had a flat then.

Karen