Update:

First ride down.  There is currently a bag of frozen rhubarb on my shoulder.  Apparently my clavicle didn't appreciate the bumpy ride.  I think I need to alter my route a bit.  There is no bike lane on Eagleson Road and I was passed by not one, but four eighteen wheelers, thundering past me, two feet away, at about 100km/h.  Yikes.