cruziegirl "It's very important to remember that the cars that try to make hood ornaments of us are (generally) driven by agressive and cranky men and we're women on light-weight bicycles."

Dunno if this thought bubble helps, think long term goals. These aggressive, cranky, and generally sedentary men (and some women) can just sit and drive to work, where they sit some more, then sit and drive home where they sit in front of the tube and suffer all the long term health effects of that lifestyle.

In other words give 'em a few years and they'll be dead anyway.

Meanwhile if we keep can just ourselves safe out there gals (and our honorary TE guys) we'll outlive 'em, and have more fun doing it. Personally I think they are jealous that we're having fun while they're stuck in cars and or that we have nicer legs than their wives.