Less emphasis on speed, more emphasis on safety and comfort. Less emphasis on style, more on what works for me. I've been commuting for almost 30 years, 23 with mostly the same commute. The two biggest technical changes for me have been LED lighting, with better, brighter, longer-lasting lights, and the internet/smartphone with emergency calling capabilities, instant information lookup and mapping, and BIKEFORUMS.NET for fast, real-world answers divorced from commercial interests. Over the years, traffic patterns have changed here , roads have grown, some have become less used; some have gone from wide one-ways to narrow two ways with center utility lanes. Some intersections have had landscape and structural changes that make them safer or less safe with better/worse sightlines. In the short-term, Colorado Springs keeps adding bike-lanes and infrastructure, most work for me, some don't. If you want to consider how my bicycling has changed since I first explored my Chicago neighborhood with my friends on our Schwinn Sting-Rays in the 1960s, I now understand, and respect traffic.