No surprise there given it’s designed for gravity riding and not climbing…
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That’ll be the pilot.
Point is, since it climbs as badly as a downhill bike but doesn’t descent as well as a downhill bike… why not just get a downhill bike? It’s sacrificing descending ability for no real gain or, if you prefer, sacrificing climbing ability for no real gain.
As for the descending… I took it to fort william for the endurance dh, took it down the mountain once, and it wasn’t as good as my Hemlock. Slightly better in the air (I guess for people who’re all about jumping that’d be a bigger deal), but worse everywhere else. So I robbed it for spares on race day, and never bothered to rebuild it. if a “gravity riding” bike can’t beat an allrounder trailbike for a job like that, when can it?