Recently I was visiting my cousins in SW PA, about an hour south of Pittsburgh. The area is all hills. Not just little rolling hills, but extremely steep hills. Place makes San Fran look flat. It seems like every street has a 45% grade. Seriously though would be surprise if any were less steep than 30%. I brought a recently purchased Bianchi Volpe Disc with me to ride while I was there. It was an exercise in futility. Even in the easiest gear it was impossible to keep up enough momentum to go up most of these hills, and going down was zero pedaling and constantly on the brakes. Anyone on here live in areas like this? How do you get in any time cycling, either to commute or for fitness? So glad to be back in MI where there are long stretches of fairly flat roads with gentle rolling hills.