How do I like them for climbing? Good question, I don't have a lot to compare them to they are fast, rather light and once you get them spinning they want to stay spinning. I did in total 28 mountians this summer and the felt great going up them (much down to my set up probably), there are wheels that role more freely when spun, but there always is.

For me the most important thing was highspeed stablility and breaking power, I like to go "hell for leather" down mountains and break late and hard before turning, and the combo between ultra sticky mavic tyres and the xalith breaking surface make using these rims an aboslute pleasure. The surface is hard wearing, eats brake pads and the tyres that come supplied last about a week if ridden hard continually!

Why not treat yourself, its not going to be your last set of wheels! Falling that Light Weight clinchers are on special at the moment in a few places.....

Ciao. Its a lovely looking bike, i really can't wait for the summer to come again so I can get back out on mine. The wheels look great, I've seen them with black decals too which also looks really good. One thing I would say to anyone looking at the pictures of the Oltre's is that in the flesh these bikes are really very pretty, so attention to detail through out the frame. Let me know how you get on with yours!

all-in-all its a great looking bike