have helmet..will travel
although not too far as it turns out....I think I'm going to be more than a little achy in the morning. I bought the helmet this morning, kid sized, to fit my kid sized head, then spent a good part of the day psyching myself up to ride around the block instead of staying inside the complex. I rode out of the driveway, turned onto the footpath with no trouble at all, ha ha! this is easy! Negotiated the first corner into the very quiet back street and decided to ride this bit on the road, not the footpath. I made it safely past the first back street intersection, continued on to the next one, which was a major cross street. No traffic was coming, so I turned in and rode towards the "big" intersection. The one with traffic lights. Shouldn't be a problem, this is easy, right? And I've been practising stopping..... But this street has a slight downward slope ...the traffic light was red, and in spite of my practising, my first instinct is still to back...