I ride very few of them. If we ride through campus and then out the bike path on the west side of town, we term it "riding the gauntlet." We even live in a bikie town and it's barely OK. I do my best to stay off the American River Bike Path in Sacatomato because of the congestion. I'm spoiled with all our open country roads.

Several years ago I had a kid launch a water balloon at my head from over the fence while I was inline skating. It was kind of fun to watch my usually mild-mannered hubby explain to the young teenager (13 or so) the definition of assault and battery. The boy's younger sister was vastly entertained also and, I'm sure, relayed the entire conversation verbatim to their parents when they got home.