the mental stress of being abused by just about everybody else on the road led to me being pissed off the whole time

I hope you don't take up bicycling -- I've been this way for years.

I wish I could figure out how to add you to my Friends list. :-) This is the only rational thing I've read all day -- except for the one above me about the electric bike, which, from a purely engineering standpoint, is the ideal vehicle.