Originally Posted by Quel

Different question, but related. How much easier does a rigid fork make your climb versus a suspension fork? My old MTB is my commuter now, and tweaked a lot of things on it, but not the suspension (hard tail). My commute is mostly flat, with one huge hill. It takes me about 90 seconds to go down this hill, and probably 4-5 minutes going back up.

Seems I don't keep any momentum to start up the hill. But the suspension is nice for the rest of the ride because it's on a MUP, and there are plenty of sections where I go over concrete that's been pushed up by tree roots, so it can get bumpy. Weighing my options, and not sure if it's worth the trade off, since it's only one hill.