Yeah, will work on finding some people this spring/summer to ride with. It's too bad our AMC chapter doesn't have the weekly show and go rides. Tomorrow I will be heading up to the Portland area in the afternoon/early evening and will probably swing by one of the bike shops (Back Bay, since they were the most helpful when I was test riding) to pick up a better lock and some new bar tape (the tape that's on the bike is a little torn, and anyway it's black tape on a black bike so I think it should be replaced with something more colorful) and ask about their shop rides. The other shops have rides too, but a lot of them seem geared more toward major hammerfests while this one looks more likely to have something I can do (and enjoy).