Originally Posted by
znomit
There's no such thing as a "small" hill after 400km.
This is true! I am doing brevets on Specialized Tricross with 34-46 crank and 12-27 cassette. Any climb at the beginning I am able to do with big ring in front must be done with small on return. There were so many brevets I wished I had at least one more small gear.
I am now looking into a new bike and the first thing I am considering, is to move from compact crank to triple and have this extra gear just in case.