First test ride in the hills, this is a shot descending the Stevens Canyon trail near Cupertino, CA. after climbing Montebello Road. Really impressed with the grip of the Marathon Mondail tires. Started running them at their minimum pressure (50psi) and they felt a bit hard, so dropped to 45 then 40psi. They felt better at 40, but am still lowering the presure slowly, and now at 32psi and they work as well on the trail as on pavement. Also installed an XFusion HiLo dropper seat post so it is quick to drop the seat up to 4" for the technical descents. That gives me a saddle height of 2" above the handlebars for pavement and 2" below for steep descents. You can also set the seat post to any height in between, too.   (10/16)