I'm off to the Mt. Mama Road Bike Challenge in about 15 minutes. I really wanted to take my touring bike (lower gears), but I just wasn't happy with the way the brakes were handling, so it will be harder pedaling with my roadie, but the risk of going slowly uphill--even if you have to walk sometimes--is far less than the risk of screaming your way to the bottom. Maybe there's an allegory, or whatever it's called in there.