Originally Posted by
HardyWeinberg
I geared my bike down to ~18 gear-inches and that will get me up the steepest hill I face but with a total load of probably not much more than 300#. Sometimes I can feel the headwind (that route is in a canyon between what passes for tall buildings around here) holding me flat. I generally have taken to finding a different route and avoiding that particular slope, traffic be damned. I still climb the hill, but it's over a more circuitous shallower route.
Today I only had to tote a shark though.
Taking it to shark preschool?
Unfortunately, there is no way around this hill. I'm up for modifying the bike, but I'm a total newbie at changing cassettes, which is how I assume you got down to 18 gear-inches. Or did you change the chain rings, too?