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Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 44
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having come back from pennsylvania and riding the mountians i am wondering how they figure grades and what they mean. i rode on 8% and being from michigan have never been beatin down so fast.
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: China
Posts: 57
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8 % grade means for every 12-and-a-half feet of run their is one foot of rise. 10% means that for every ten feet you go forward you go up one foot. In England they would call a 10% grade a one in ten. A 5 % grade takes you up one foot for every 20 feet or forward travel; this would be a one in twenty. A one in five is what you do not want. |
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