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Listen to these guys, Steve. They are the resident road bike nut jobs and have been messing with them for a long time. If you really want to tinker and get grease under your finger nails, then I think you should do it and scratch that itch. Part of the fun is also to explore and glue your eye balls the catalogues well, the net now and read all about it so you can spend more money. Fun stuff, no question about it but be really careful with alignment issues and they are so minor and the tolerances are so close that any out of adjustment issues or the "It fits" will cause slight rubbing of the chain. That will ruin my day on a long ride, I tell ya. Nothing like noise coming from the drive train. I want to stick a pump into someone's wheel if they have noise drive trains riding near me. My suggest to you is also to tinker with another bike if you want 10 or even 11 speed. You have that tiny third ring up front and that's enough to climb trees with what you have back there. Your course is pretty flat, so I really think what you have is more then enough to get over those hills with ease. Go out for a 30-40 mile ride and you will know what you really need. Tennis shoe would be Ok to keep from falling for her
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