Originally Posted by
revcp
Go to the bathroom before descending. If it's too steep, it will scare that load right out of you.
LOL. Best advice so far.
However, I must demur! I feel that the pre-bathroom lower center of gravity would inspire more confidence in bike handling.
My friend (who is also from the Twin Cities) and I actually want to make an annotated route map that has cues such as "emergency cat hole with spectacular view". I won't tell you which end of the Bear Mountain bridge inspired that idea...