John_V 

I don't ride a bent, yet! My wife has a tadpole racing trike that I ride every now and then when she lets me. I really enjoy riding it and if the day comes when I can no longer ride my road bike, I can see a similar trike in my future. I don't think that you will regret buying a recumbent. All of the bent riders that I know will not give them up for anything.

On the plus for us in Florida, we don't have hills to climb and what hills we do have are not a problem on bents. I have done many charity rides in our so called hilly area of the state and bents don't seem to have any difficulty on those at all. Even the very steep bridges that we have an abundance of appear to be an easy task by bents. Tadpoles are a different story. They are a bit harder to climb than their two wheeled cousins.