For those of us who work in tech, you might have heard the term ‘PEBCAK’.

Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

I’ve created a variant of that … PEBSAB.

Problem Exists Between Saddle And Bars

A while ago my wife and I went on a vacation to Maui, Hawaii … we stayed in the Kihei area.

Just south of Kihei is Wailea … to get to that area you have to go up a few smallish hills.

I had rented a nice Trek Domaine from a LBS and was riding a long … but found those hills to be incredibly difficult… and I couldn’t figure out why.

After thinking about it a bit, I realized, I wasn’t using my front derailleur.

My usual bike has Di2 and I enabled syncroshift … so the front derailleur automatically shifts when the rear derailleur gets to a specific gear.

I was totally used to not manually shifting the front derailleur.

After I realized that, riding those hills got a whole lot easier.