My new bike

So after five weeks, I finally caved and got a bike. It seems that this is the preferred way of getting around Oxford - everybody has one, and you even see old men riding around on them, and walking to school was taking a lot of time. There's a couple problems I had with this which prevented me from getting a bike. First is that I haven't ridden in about 12 years. Second, Oxford is a city. A city with a lot of buses. And on the way to school, there's this one tree next to a bike path that always has a bouquet of flowers taped to it. So it seems like it's not unheard of to get yourself hurt on these things. But I feel lucky... and England has socialised health care.