Originally Posted by
Mr. Beanz
Yup, that's why I included the "some argue about accuracy" in my post. But IME, the elevation gains have been close on rides like our GMR to the shack (8 mile climb 2200 ft) to what those using Garmins record. But again, I'm not really into exact numbers as long as they are similar. Plus I'll get a Garmin sooner or later.
When it comes down to it, I us it as a reference for my rides. Only to categorize them as "this will be ok" and "this is going to hurt".
BTW, are you using a Garmin?
No Garmin but I did recently get one of them fancy smart phones. Strava's rendering of the route recorded on my Droid said 4.4% average on that quarter mile with a peak grade of 6.7%.
I've yet to ride that section with iMapMyRide running on the phone. I'd imagine the gradients would be slightly more accurate than the gradients from their online maps.