Mlle Moto's First Day Out

Today was the big day! I've finally got the Motobecane back on the road!

First, we went to work.




And she got to sit out by the street trying to attract attention.
I tried out riding with toe clips in loafers:




Which works out just fine. :)

After lunch we went for a quick jaunt.




I'm discovering that, for now anyway, I need to have the handle bars higher than the saddle. Otherwise I get a sore neck and shoulders. This might be also because this bike is too tall for me. You'll notice that I have the saddle as far down as it will go. This gives me just the right leg extension and if I lean a little I can sit on the saddle and put a toe down. But I can't stand over the top tube without being on my tip toes.

On the way home I spotted something I must have ridden past thousands of times! There are some very old steps just at the side of the road.




If you go up them, you're overlooking I-26. Perhaps there was a house there once?







I would have never noticed them had the flowers not caught my eye.

So far I'm really liking this bike! It's light and spritely but just a little twitchy. I hope to correct that by eventually doing a 650b conversion. And I may or may not keep the drop bars. We'll see.