Darby -- I too have wondered if my profile is intimidating or "psycho vibe"! Have tried different permutations of it too - just to see. Mostly I just have to be myself, and I think you should too.

Trek -- Ratings and "test rides" eh??? .... I give him an A for strength and flexibility of his frame, but performance was only a C, as he wasn't firm enough in the saddle....

So, here's the date report....

We met up at noon on Sunday. Parking near the trailhead was crowded due to there being a festival in town this weekend. Weather was cool and damp, but do-able. I took it a little easy at first, because his bike looked like it hadn't been ridden in awhile, and he had to stop on the way to where we met so that he could buy a helmet. He was right up there with me though and we soon settled into a nice conversation as we rode. I gave him a few opportunities to say that he wanted to turn around and go back, but he didn't. He had hot muscular calves too! We ended up doing the whole 40 mile round-trip, so I was really impressed and the conversation was great - made the trip go really fast. When we got back to the parking area......... both of our cars had been TOWED!!!!!

We had to find a restaurant to call around to see where they had been taken. Turns out that the other cars had parked in front of the "no parking" sign that we didn't see So we rode the bikes about another 5 miles across town to the impound place and stood around in the 45 degree weather for half an hour - sweated through and losing core temperature while waiting for the guy to show up.

We had to cough up $157.50 ..... APIECE........ CASH ONLY!!!!

By then we were so cold, that we proceeded to the Blue Moose to drink copious amounts of Hot coffee and talk for another hour.
Bit of an expensive adventure for a first date, but he seemed really nice and seemed to take it all okay..... we'll see if I ever hear from him again!!!


Thanks for all the great advice and commiseration!