congrats!
almost all cyclists I meet and super friendly and very supportive, so i'm not really surprised
we just did a 10km ride in a Bavarian forest next to a river and we saw several village/town cycling groups (20 people wearing similar gear from the same village) riding that were extra friendly to our super laid-back approach (with two 70+ year old people). "Hallo"s all the way around.
cycling is a good family of people.