Question about average speeds

[Possegal]

trust me, i don't speed up boustead in my CAR, in fact, i won't drive up it, only down it. so yes, apparently the photo does not do it justice. i'll have to try the angle from the top of the hill when i go home next week, maybe that will convey it better. in fact, i bet it will, so i will try that and resurrect this thread yet again.

here is canton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_Avenue and here is video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxWceFTkLRU
37% grade, on cobblestones. the guy who posted this video posted some other streets, but not boustead. you should see links for some other streets on the page for the canton video. suffolk street is also not far from me, as is canton.


let's see if i can add the pic of the the man running in his socks who challenged the bike winner, and beat him. running up canton faster than the biker.

hopefully you can see how steep canton is from these links/pics, and like i said, folks say boustead is probably steeper just that the grade of the road is for the whole road and since it is flat at a few spots, the 28% grade doesn't rightly show how steep it is at some points.