Thanks for the input! There's a Performance Bike not too far from here, so I'll give them a call to check on the Fuji, and see if I can find my way up there over the weekend. Eden, did you happen to see if there's an end date on the sale flyer?

And yes, I sort of suspected that the way to get good at hills was to climb more of them. That's on the agenda for the weekend, too.

I'll keep you all posted on my progress!