Quote Originally Posted by featuretile View Post
The Comp model has a 12-25 cassette and the smallest chain ring is 30. The Elite and the Sport have smaller chain rings and the cassette goes up to 32. My bike has a 48-38-28 ring and the cassette was 12-25. It was too hard to get up the major hills, so I changed the cassette to 11-28.
Featuretile, I live in Michigan, and there are no major hills in my area, in fact Michigan is fairly flat most places, which is good news for me . I have to admit that I'm not that sophisticated when it comes to bicycle components, so I'm a little stumped about what you mean about the cassette/ring numbers. Is the VITA Comp I'm looking at not good for hills? Is one of the other VITA models better for hills?

Thanks for all the great input ladies!

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