Originally Posted by
banerjek
Climbing on bents is not the big deal that some people make it out to be. No, it's not as fast as a road bike, but it's fast enough that if you're any good at climbing, you'll still get past the vast majority of people on road bikes that you used to.
I rode a century earlier this month with real climbing. A few guys on bents would go screaming down the hills and in a couple min would be caught climbing back up. Eventually they were completely dropped in the hillier sections. Not that it was a race or anything.
