Originally Posted by
steelbikeguy
I suspect that it was intended to compete with the Avocet 50, which had a barometric altimeter and could calculate total feet of climbing (with a reasonable degree of accuracy, I guess).
For measuring the steepness of a road, I've used the Sky Mounti inclinometer. It's just a bubble level, with all of the sensitivities of such a gravity based sensor. It is definitely sensitive to fore & aft acceleration, so you do need to keep a steady pedaling rate. This isn't always easy to do when grunting up a steep hill, but I thought it worked well enough.
yep that tiny level gauge or what you want to call it was around, I remember
I had an avocet wrist watch altimeter, in fact several of them, and loved them. Very intuitive menu design, unlike my Suunto or *shudder* any polar, for that matter. The Avocets were very precise. I remember having read somewhere that the Jobst Brandt was involved in the design, but I don't know if that's true.