Originally Posted by
fstshrk
Ahem, 1% is not uphill, try 14% and then get back to us.
You aren't going to do 25mph up a 1% grade for 1.5 miles without considerable effort. That same effort should yield quite a fast speed up a 14% grade, too.
And I think his point was that 20mph uphill doesn't mean someone is cheating. Shallow grades or shorter steeper segments are totally doable at over 20mph. My one KOM is on a 5.5% grade where I managed 23mph (for 0.1miles).