but from downtown to Silver Spring, you can take the Crescent Trail which is like gradually inclined. Not bad at all if you are a regular biker. And there is the Metropolitan Branch Trail that runs to silver spring.

Typical road bike should be no more than 30lbs and you should be fine.
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