A1. Posting from Alameda, California. A typical ride is over a bridge on the sidewalk, past a freeway on/off ramp or 3, through a random fresh fish market and a vegetable market dodging forklifts, past 18 wheelers at the port of Oakland, and then up a comparatively quiet boulevard behind warehouses up to a bunch of big box stores. Painted bike lanes, through debris strewn industrial neighborhoods mostly, where bikes were an afterthought.