Quote Originally Posted by divingbiker View Post
The one thing I wish I had was a few smaller gears for going up big hills. Of course, I'm not young any more (50) and about your size, so I need all the help I can get. MDHillSlug has the Sequoia also and had her LBS swap out the cassette, and the difference was noticeable on the hills when we rode together.
I love love love my 2006 Sequoia elite. I didn't try the Giant.

As divingbiker said, I swapped the 12-25 cassette for a 12-27 to give me some more low hill-climbing gears. I have no shame in using those granny gears when necessary.

I'm still trying to figure out if I need a shorter stem.