I never really gave much thought to cadence, but after reading this thread last night, I decided to pay a little more attention on today's ride. Looks like I spin at around 80. I guess I'm pretty content with that. It's what's comfortable for me at this point, and it will be interesting to see if it goes up with time. I was trying to count rpm's on hills too, but I was kind of all over the place. On one nice long steady hill, I was in my granny gear spinning at about 65-70. I definitely try to always gear down on hills...no mashing for me! Well, except when the hill is steep and I've run out of gears!