Welcome Jeff! Vermont - heaven for some of us roadies. I didn't spend a lot of time in your state (I raced out of Boston 40 + years ago, but the races of Stowe and Putney were my favorites and 8 years ago I got to ride with my old riding partner and her husband along both sides of the Connecticut River.

I got early in life that I had no business ever getting on one of the motorized bikes; that the lightweight ones were, for me, far safer. But I have always considered those riders brothers, knowing if I was in a real jam, it was the tough Harley riders who might actually stop. (I used to get thumbs up from them as they pulled out of stoplights after they spent the entire sequence studying this skinny guy with shaved legs, black shorts, colorful jersey and black Italian shoes. Them in full leathers.)

Ben