Show us your gradients

[magnatom]

For the first time yesterday I took my alternative route home (more rural, more hilly). I had used it on the way to work, but not on the way back. It was only on the way back that I realised that I had some stonking hills to contend with! Actually quite enjoyed it, but it was hard work and if I do it regularly will help with hill climbing! So I stuck the route into bikehike (you can't save them now) and had a look at the gradients.

As I suspected a couple over 10% (one around about 15%) and a couple more not far off.

Now in the grand scheme of things I know there will be plenty on here with more impressive gradient charts....so post your gradient charts here.


(It's a bit like car drivers showing off all the gadgets their car has! )

 

[stroanite]

Not nearly as bad!

Fraid mine's not nearly as bad - good views of Strathspey and the Feshie hills though

Can't get the blessed graph to display - anyway, steepest gradient is about 8%, for a very short section, and 600ft ascent in 12 miles

 

[magnatom]

Fraid mine's not nearly as bad - good views of Strathspey and the Feshie hills though

Can't get the blessed graph to display - anyway, steepest gradient is about 8%, for a very short section, and 600ft ascent in 12 miles

If you save the graph straight off of bikehike it'll save as a png, whicg I don't think the forums can cope with. You need something to take a screenshot of it. I use gimp.

 

[numbnuts]

Not mountainous but one of my hilly rides

 

[stroanite]

Next go

Tried from GIMP

 

[BentMikey]

Bikely might be easier - you can use alt-prtscreen to capture the image, and then paste it into windows paint.

Here's mine - I already started a topic like this one:
http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=53455

 

[magnatom]

It's all good, but I am looking for commutes. What do people have to deal with day in day out. Who are the real hard men/woman on these forums. Come on folks, lay yer gradients on the table!

 

[magnatom]

Bikely might be easier - you can use alt-prtscreen to capture the image, and then paste it into windows paint.

Here's mine - I already started a topic like this one:
http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=53455

It doesn't really show how hard the climbs are though, at least, not as intuitively. That's why I was looking for gradients.

 

[magnatom]

Tried from GIMP

It worked!

There isn't much rest on that commute!

 

[Crackle]

It's all good, but I am looking for commutes. What do people have to deal with day in day out. Who are the real hard men/woman on these forums. Come on folks, lay yer gradients on the table!

You know it's a bit of a pinch of salt though. One route I do has the gradient at 15% when the sign says 10%, another at 6% when the sign says 10%, one not there at all when it's over 20%. I've basically given up on the accuracy of these things and they are all the same because they use the same innacurate database with only their own algorithm to process it being different. Mapmyride is about the best or make your own from an OS map. Now there's a challenge

 

[magnatom]

You know it's a bit of a pinch of salt though. One route I do has the gradient at 15% when the sign says 10%, another at 6% when the sign says 10%, one not there at all when it's over 20%. I've basically given up on the accuracy of these things and they are all the same because they use the same innacurate database with only their own algorithm to process it being different. Mapmyride is about the best or make your own from an OS map. Now there's a challenge

Of course the mapping of gradients is an art form, and different techniques will give you different gradients. One hill I go up (on my normal commute) has a sign for 12% but comes up as about 7 or 8 on mapping software. However, it's an interesting indication and not a million miles off. If we all use the same software it might be a little more comparable.

 

[Crackle]

Of course the mapping of gradients is an art form, and different techniques will give you different gradients. One hill I go up (on my normal commute) has a sign for 12% but comes up as about 7 or 8 on mapping software. However, it's an interesting indication and not a million miles off. If we all use the same software it might be a little more comparable.

Aye, aye, true enough. Bikehike is still my favourite because of the OS mapping and it's speed. Mapmyride would be my favourite if it wasn't covered with an impenetrable interface, annoying pop-ups and was fast enough to actually use. Anyway, as you were.

 

[2Loose]

Mine

 

[gaz]

gradient for my commute

 

[gavintc]

Give me a month or so and I will have an impressive commute. My route will take me through a couple of volcanic craters - complete with the rather steep climb out of the bowl. In addition, I will be cycling past one crater that still bubbles sulphur out at high temperatures and then curves around the outside of a roman amphitheatre. Of course I will have to cope with the Neapolitan drivers and the potholes. I think it will be about 12miles on the most direct route.