I plan to ride the Limestone Route and have done the EroicaCA long route 4 times. 5 times if I include the year that I also did the Saturday long ride. The Sunday ride, I always rode with C&V road gears because I felt that was the point: 52/42-13/24 and I walked parts of Cypress and Kiler--especially that one year with all the ruts on Kiler and that long final pitch to the top of the Kiler climb is Killer. When I did the Saturday Nova ride, I had a compact for a 34/ 28 and never walked. We are running out of time and my Le Champion is prepared for fresh paint. Not sure what I'll ride. The V-GT Luxe is now on my PA-10E and will be set up for trailer hauling duty with a Mountain LX 48-38-28 when some chain ring spacers show up this next week. Maybe that will get the nod with a 14,18,22,26,30 in the back. Could be fun. We'll see. Whatever I ride, I'll be using SPDs. I'm now 12 weeks post open heart surgery and felt pretty good today for 37 miles and 3400 feet. 6 weeks to go. See you there?