Grasshopper:

After watching the tour this year I decided I wouldn't ride in the rain either. Or at least not until I can handle my bike good enough in fair weather and I think I have a long ways to go yet. We've been cycling for the same amount of time. when I was a kid my parents got me a bike for my birthday but they didn't know bikes were supposed to be fitted to you and neither did I so it was to big and I rode down a hill and fell flat on my face because I wasn't strong enough to put on the brakes. It was a manual bike with brakes that worked by pedaling backwards. Although I never really grew into the bike I did manage to learn how to work it so that by the time I was 12 I was riding for miles and up hills that would intimidate me now. I was known as the bike girl back then because I was the only person who rode a bike so much. Most people had horses. But once I got into high school I gave up cycling and now that I'm trying to get back into it, its turned into a whole scientific thing! It just amazes me and makes me wish that I had kept up with it.