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Old 09-09-13 | 05:48 PM
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In a very rough way, that calculator is pretty easy to test. Today I went down a hill with a grade of 6% without pedaling, and used the calculator to predict my terminal velocity (before looking at my data). I stopped at the bottom and estimated the wind speed. It predicted 26.9 MPH, and that was in the right neighborhood. The peak shows 31.4 MPH, but the values around it are near the predicted value.


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