Quote Originally Posted by RoadRaven View Post
Thats a pretty awesome climb up a hill!
I keep telling my partner I need a specific commuting bike - probably a steel road race one - with panniers and "carry-stuff" facilities... and this is a perfect example of why!
I'd simply fly up hills if I had to carry all that extra weight in my training!

Glad you were able to balance and rebalance everything and not lose anything along the way.

Just gonna repeat myself again - AWESOME ride home up that hill!
Thanks! Really, it is a fairly short hill but it is pretty steep and is in a place where one doesn't start the climb with all that much momentum (the road slopes upward gradually from a turn and then gets steep). I was surprised I didn't have to get off and walk today, since I'm not great at going uphill anyway and then had a lot of extra weight. I'm sure the next time I ride up that hill it won't seem so bad!