Originally Posted by unterhausen

I see how you could be confused by my previous post. I live in the mountains of central PA. We have long, steep climbs here. Granted, it's rare to get more than 1000' or so of elevation at a time, but often you have to climb that in 2 miles or less. Climbing up onto the Allegheny plateau from here will get elevation changes on the order of 1500'. When I mentioned 50-100' of climbing per mile, that's for flat rides. In any event, I'm not worried about climbing or riding over mountains myself.