I'll add another item to this - going downhill. I gear it down and stay off the brakes. There's been multiple times when I'll pull over on a downhill to let others pass and have a bunch of idiots shaking their fists at me and honking. THEN - a mile or two later, I smell burning brakes, come around the corner and there's the same idiot with his head under his vehicle wondering why his brakes are burning up! I just toot the horn and wave - I'll get to the bottom way before said idiot will - unless he runs over a cliff that is. If you don't respect the mountain, it certainly won't respect you!