one hundred forty eight

STEEP BOTH UP AND DOWN

The streets of San Francisco are ridiculously steep. The cars are parked sideways for a reason. This was a poorer neighborhood with sub million dollar homes, well maybe just the low millions. 

My eighty five pound bike was geared to climb almost anything but these grades were not worth the energy. I walked up several of the really steep ones and actually walked down this one. 

I started down and realized my brakes may not hold. I took care to put extra strong brakes on my bike because of the heavy load, but these hills seemed to be past to their limit. I don't know how they poured the cement on these streets. 

This picture doesn't really show the angle, but you get some idea.