I have only seen one other commuter with loaded down racks and panniers, full >=20w light and perfectly obeying traffic laws. ironnically i was driving my car at the time and wasn't able to catch up with him in heavy traffic! i see a lot of students typicaly riding their rusted magnas and free spirits to the dorm the wrong way in the dark on the sidewalk with one hand on the bars and the other of their cell phones. i think nature will thin them out naturally, hopefully. then there are the working class who i see regularly but still on the sidewalk and on the same old schwinn or huffy. somehow i respect them more than the kids who ride their dad's passed down peugot racer, run stops, ride a cadence of 30rpm in the only gear that still works, and lock their bikes with $2 sprawlmart locks sideways so no one else can use the racks. i also see about 2 roadies whipping the cream in the better part of town. oh and every once in a while you get the roving gang of 15 year old bmxers tooling around the stairs. not a soul other than the pannier guy commutes but me, and i probably just imagined him.