yes, 45 degrees is a 100% grade because you are travellling as far forward as you are up.
I'm really not sure what you consider climbable, but an 8% grade LOOKS formidablem not a spectacular climber, so I'm confused about eyeballing the angle of a slope. Are my eyeball estimates totally off? What would the slope of a hypothetical very-steep-but-climbable section be?
and a 16% grade is tough to walk up and down, and both are climbable by some people.
I don't eyeball them, I have an inclinometer on my bike and my husband has a GPS that's how we figure it out
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05-11-2007, 11:36 AM #10
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