I have a friend here in Utah who is a strong rider and just installed an 11/32 on his compact bike. He said that on some of the long climbs in our area he would rather keep his cadence high than muscling through the steep grades (9-14%). I'm not an exceptionally strong climber and I ride an 11/28 on a compact bike. I recently rode Little Cottonwood Canyon to Snowbird (penultimate stage of Tour of Utah - final climb) which includes about 4.5 miles of constant 9-12% grades and found I could only maintain a cadence of 55-60. The 32 cog would have been nice on that ride.