Originally Posted by msheron
Those grades are chicken feed then..............I routinely find 23% to as much as 39 % grades for a few miles at times. Now that being said..............not at any speed however..........I think I avg. about 8-10 mph on those grades.
Hmm. If the combined weight of you and your bike is 170 pounds and you're doing 8 mph up a 23% grade, you're putting out about 680 watts. At roughly 10 watts/kilogram, that'd make you the strongest cyclist in the world. Or it could be that your numbers are off a little...
