New To Cycling

Since this is my first post I thought I'd give a little background on myself with respect to cycling. I bought my first bike (as an adult) in September. I'd known since moving to Lincoln that I wanted to get into cycling, at a minimum, to explore the city.
After several months of mulling it over, and saving, I purchased a new trek road bike (a 1500).

Since then I've ridden around almost all of the cities trails (in later posts I'll clarify what I consider a trail, some things Lincoln calls a "trail" I call a wide sidewalk) and a few of Des Moines' trails.