Cool, Nanci. I'm on my way to the other other side. I've put in 163 road miles in the last month on my mountain bike which had been collecting dust for the last 4 years. Put semi slicks on her. Looking forward to a road bike... some day. But Saturday I climbed a big road that always killed me before, and then was able to do 1/2 mile dirt trail over a ridge and dropped into Thousand Oaks- the next city over! That was cool to tell my husband I dropped into Thousand Oaks. Of course with a nice little carbon framed road bike I could throw her on my shoulder and hike-a-bike!