New to road biking, a couple of silly questions

[vickster]

16mph in rush hour traffic with red lights seems pretty quick, especially if there are hills. If you live in the wilds of East Anglia where there's no traffic and it's flat as a pancake, you may be ok!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Nope, just patrol on a bike rather than on foot most of the time. Nice being paid to keep fit :P

Brought my own bike to work to use patrolling parking decks. Great hillclimb workouts, when I was at that post. Now I drive a bus, but commute home 10 miles on the bike .