I have a new Trek mountain bike. I love it, and I plan to get it out in the woods regularly as soon as I'm not so busy with the youth baseball season starting up. In the meantime, my only choice for riding is the paved town trail and around town on the streets.

Last year when I just had the Buick*, I rode it shamelessly everywhere I wanted to go, even though the bike is rusty and loud and hard to ride. Now that I have a Trek, it kinda sorta looks like I know what I'm doing (I don't!).

How stupid does it look to ride a brand new Trek mountain bike out on the highway where the roadies ride (99% men in this small Arkansasa town)? Am I going to be laughed into the ditch?

I don't really intend to get on any highways, but as I said in other posts, I can see I'm going to need more miles to meet my goals, and some of those are going to have to be distance rides, or I'm going to get bored.

Help me get my sense of shamelessness back, in spite of my Trek pride!

Karen
*It says Roadmaster on the downtube...I've never bothered to look to see what else it says.