Held off a while getting a road bike, just wasn't too excited about riding with cars. But since I've had the road bike, it hasn't been nearly as bad as expected, in fact, not bad at all so far. And since the nearest trail is 20 miles away, and the nearest trail that I really enjoy is nearly an hours drive, it was road riding, or very little trail riding because of time constraints. I try to ride roads I know are less busy, and often will start and end a ride in a nearby industrial park on the weekend-hardly any traffic, nice wide lanes with plenty of room for the occasional car/truck that you do see, and can connect to many other roads with little traffic. I just try to stay off the more heavily traveled roads, or ones where a car would have a difficult time passing me.