Remember learning how to ride a bike? Did you start with training wheels or a hobby horse? When the training wheels came off did you start on grass or go straight to the pavement? Did anyone go straight into traffic?
People worry too much about picking the right bike. The bike is like your paper. There are people who want to understand the physics of bicycles and how the gears work and such, but that doesn’t need to be the first step in learning to ride.
At some point you have to take the training wheels off and ride. You have to do it – you have to try. It won’t make sense until you have some experience.
I don’t really care about the bike – I care about the riders. Making better riders is more important than whether your bike is new or old, or it’s color, or if it has tassels on the handlebars. Lance Armstrong could beat me in a bike race on a Schwinn off the rack even if I had the most expensive carbon composite bike made.
And for the record, I don’t like tassels on the handlebars.
