Yeah guys, bikes can be fun, AND dangerous!!
I had to quit my daily riding partly because of the protesters, but mostly due to encroaching civilization. I knew the end was near when I started seeing more automobiles than cows
Lots more CARS, and trucks! and RVs! and...and...
I was accused of looking like a traveling circus at night(and it was always night on the way to work in the winter as well as coming home)but I got lucky and and was never visited by an accident...other than falling on ice in the company parking lot three times.
The longest distance "to work" rider I was aware of, was one fella who had about 30 miles one way, but he rarely rode in more than about once a week in the summer.
Best century was the one to Hell: We got there before it opened....and it got worse after that!! But they did have a passle of fruit and snack stops along the way to help keep boredom at bay.
I eventually had to retire the bike, but it was happily replaced with cross-country skiis!
.....in the winter anyway.
Rich.