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As long as the front wheel is pressing on the ground, your CG is too far forward to maximise traction. If longer stays mean your front wheel is skimming the road when you sit and climb, that's an improvement over short stays which would mean the front wheel was coming up to meet you, but that's not an improvement in traction, it's an elimination of tipping over backwards.