Wow - you all are awesome. I can't believe how helpful you are - and the lack of flaming is amazing.

So let me get this straight . . . the shifter on the left is the rings and the shifter on the right is cogs? If I'm on the middle ring and the lowest cog, and it's still too hard to pedal uphill, I can go ahead and shift down to the lowest ring . . . no, wait, that would have me on low cog and low ring and that's a no-no . . . .

So if I'm going uphill on the middle ring and lowest cog and it's still too hard to pedal, what do I do?

Wouldn't think this would be rocket science, but holy cow