Originally Posted by chirojeremy

Commute in was slow and relaxed because I rode in with a girl and her friend who was fairly new to cycling. In fact, the poor girl only used 1 gear for 70% of the ride because she did not know how to change gears. Luckily this way was the easy way. She is going to have one helluva a time coming back home because it has 1 nice hill that I can barely manage 8-8.5mph spinning up it. She was on a MB too. We did have 1 car with what looked like high school kids coming the opposite way honk and yell something at us, but we could not hear it.The ride back was by myself in the beginnings of rush hour traffic. I was riding hard and relatively fast for me. At one point I had some lady honk and pass me in some big SUV. At the light ahead I rolled up to her window and motioned for her to roll down her window. I was suprised when she did. I asked her if it was her that honked at me and she said no, then I looked at the truck next to her and some guys were looking at me. I asked them and they said they were honking for her to get over and pass. I told them both thank you and rode off when the light turned green. Maybe it was my big clyde body confronting them to their face that made them seem more hospitable...