well...yesterday afternoon and this morning was my first time ever commuting on the bicycle. I did it because it was Ride you bike to work day in the Sacramento, Ca area. And they had a free breakfast set up if you rode into work, and it was 3/4 mile from my place of work. Now a little back ground. We here in the Sac area are blessed with some really good trails. Normally my commute is about 16.5 miles one way. I really wanted to stay off of the surfaces streets as much as possible.....so my ride ended up being 34 miles one way....I was only on the surfaces street about 7 of thos miles. Not bad...almost thinking I might do this once a month....wasn't that hard to make happen.