"Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote in message
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"Tom Sherman" wrote in message
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What Ed is missing is that the proper recumbent climbing technique
involves a higher cadence than the upright climbing technique.

What you're missing is that you can stand on an upright and crawl over
rough ground at 2 mph. You cannot balance a recumbent at that speed nor
could you pedal up the very steep hills that require standing like that.

And certainly recumbents are almost impossible off-road.