Another Cincinnati rider here and I soooooo understand where your coming from. I rode from my house to the grocery store, about a mile or less from my house, during the weekday when MOST of the cars are off the road... I got honked at making a left turn and I was even getting all the way right so traffic could pass.

So is this a reason to shun road riding and stick to rec riding on the local trails? Is this reason to blow up on the hill because I'm trying to get to the top and off on a the small side street before I get road raged?

I'm a member of CCC, but with my work schedule I can't make many of the rides and im a newbie, not sure of my skills on the bike to ride in a pack just quite yet. Yes, there is safety in numbers, so I do reccomend trying some of th CCC rides.

Shannon

Ps. Owlie and I have met up for some trail riding and would love to meet up sometime before she moves up for Grad school in Dayton.