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[tomato]

Originally Posted by Yaris Hilton

I guess everybody knows the old trick of setting the parking brake if you're stopped on a slope to keep from rolling backward, then letting it off as you start to let the clutch out? When you get used to it, you don't need the parking brake anymore.

I still do it. Some of our San Francisco hills are really, really steep.

[BailOut]

Originally Posted by tomato

I still do it. Some of our San Francisco hills are really, really steep.

So do I. Here in Incline Village there is an intersection with a long light on a steep grade, and it's a rather tight spot so folks tend to pull up close on your tail. So close that I don't trust the throttle lag and use the parking brake to get going.