Just bought my bike!

[Owlie]

Thanks for the welcome! I'll post photos later today.

Owlie, I live just four blocks from the Dayton Art Institute, so my rides so far have been on the path that runs along the Great Miami. We've got bike paths all over Dayton and the nearby counties though, so you'll never run out of places to ride. Dayton has also been adding bike lanes to some of the downtown streets and plans to add more in the future. And somebody recently started a free bike program. They put out 50 bright yellow bikes downtown. Anybody can ride them and then just leave them at the final destination. Bikes are cool in Dayton!

I've been doing some reconnaissance of the area via Google Maps. Lots of trails, by the looks of it. Hopefully they get around to actually connecting some of them! I'm moving up toward the Fairborn/Beavercreek area, so while I'm not in the epicenter of bikeness, I'm not that far from one of the parks so I can access that particular trail.