While not as cool as a ride from Chicago to Cleveland I just rode 22 miles to work on mine. I can't wait for the ride home. As people have pointed out one of the coolest features of this bike is the wide gear range you get by having the SRAM DualDrive hub. I had a nice tailwind on the ride in so I put it in the highest gear and was flying and it felt great. I've ridden this bike to work an average of 3 days a week since the beginning of summer and I've hardly had to do any maintenance on it outside of lubing the chain.