Originally Posted by
BlazingPedals
To turn the hill thing around and look at it from my point of view, my hill climbing seems normal to me. Uprights are a bit faster climbing, but they're slower everywhere else. Now THAT is not a compromise I'd want to make unless my riding was nearly all up/down.
Gotta agree with you on that. My only reason for thinking about riding df on brevets is the "riding alone all the time" thing. Since virtually all my training rides are solo, I'm used to it, but it does get old. Oh well. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.
SP
Bend, OR