Originally Posted by oneeyedhobbit

Its clear from all that time riding your friends Trek you learned a lot about biking, too. You're so well informed that you let a bunch of strangers on the internet convince you how to spend 4-$500 dollars 4 different ways in 3 days.

I guess I'm probably coming off unnecessarily dickish. If you rode for a year and know you love it the Wabi is definitely a nice bike. But if you're so worried about this hill that you feel its necessary to go $400 over your original bikes budget to make it up, maybe you should just buy a geared bike from craigslist. Then you can ignore the weight and downshift.