You guys are sick. Please tell me you are able to achieve 30mph+ on a GEARED BIKE! Please!!! I'm riding a singlespeed Redline, 16 miles to work. I just bought it last week, and I haven't ridden a bicycle to work since September. So I've had 5 months off. I was feeling pretty badly about myself this morning, looking at my new cyclocomputer, and seeing how much it was hanging on 15mph, and that it required more work to maintain 19-20mph, and how many long gradual climbs where I was at around 12mph. Now I feel really badly about myself! Other points to note though, as my brain races to make excuses for my out-of-shape self: I've never commuted to work in the winter before, loaded down with all these layers and with a backpack on. Oh yeah - I made (I think) a stupid decision to do this on an empty stomach. 5 months off, and I jump onto a 16 mile commute with hills with nothing in my belly. No wonder I got dizzy a few times. I've also never seriously commuted on a singlespeed bike before. Somebody, anybody, tell me I'm a hero or something. Send me a box of twinkies and let's call it a day.