My wife/I did our first real ride on it today, downtown and back. It's ~13miles with one good hill that I do regularly by myself so it was nice to compare against.

We had no real issues, just one time where we crested a roller, coasted down, and started pedaling again but we were discussing something and I didn't upshift so I spun out and my wife isn't used to that and her feet came off the pedals and one got hit by a pedal from the back. Other than that, it was a great learning ride to practice 'the proper method' for takeoffs/stops, etc.

Oh, the ice cream lady at the riverfront park downtown wasn't selling, that's a negative I guess.

The stock gearing worked for the uphill though we were in granny for most of it. I can see moving to 10-speed eventually and lowering the gearing a little more but I also think my wife's conditioning and the heat played a part in that hill being tough. The SRAM Apex brakes worked fine, I rode them moderately on the downhill (22mph max, could have hit 35 probably without the brakes) to help bed the pads in. Hopefully they get better, I'm used to the discs on the mtb, v-brakes on the hybrid, and cantis on my cx/road bike and not having that kind of control may take some getting used to.

It was a good ride.