I'm glad I stumbled on this forum. I just bought a bike saturday and I have 104 pounds to lose.

I can't ride a regular bike, leaning on the handlebars wrecks havoc on my wrist and I had given up riding as a possible source of exercise. Then I wandered past a bike shop the other day, saw a poster for a 'flat foot' bike and went for a test ride. I rode right out with a new Townie bike. No pain in my wrist at all!

I've been riding to work, about 6 miles each way, with a mile long hill just before home-currently I have to get off and walk the last bit.

So am I crazy to think I could get in shape in time to go on the Red Riding Hood 38 mile ride in Cache Valley Utah in just over a month? The description says mostly flat, no big hills. That's right in my backyard.