How steep is a hill

Any idea how steep Andersen St hill is?
Running from the yarra towards Toorak Rd?

Just curious as to roughly what the gradient would be.

"Jamie Wilson" wrote in message ...

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Just wanted to know how do they measure the gradient of a hill.

I turn to Jaywoo and say "what's the gradient of this hill".. he looks down
at his VDO MC1.0 (?) trip computer.. and he replies with the %age.. it's
great 🙂...

cheers,
GPL

Jamie Wilson said:

Just wanted to know how do they measure the gradient of a hill.
For example any Brisvegas riders here ?
The Goodwill Bridge climbing from the Botanical gardens end to Southbank,
isn't really that steep, and its short, but if it were to climb at that
gradient for 1 kilometre it would be a tough climb, so how do they measure a
hill.
Like in TDF they say a cat 1 , 2, 3 , climb, how does it all work ?

Thanks for any info.

Climbs are measured in gradient, percentage of height by horizontal distance. i.e. 10% gradient climbs 100m in 1km. Goodwill bridge dunno, maybe 6% at it's steepest??

I've recorded some of the climbs around Brisbane here:
members.optusnet.com.auClimbs.htmlOpen ↗

I haven't put up one of mt cootha but it's 10% climbing for 2.3km in the anticlockwise direction.

Here's how the TdF categories work:
gastoncountycyclists.comrating%20climbs.htmlOpen ↗

Also check out www.cycle2max.com for climbs and times.

GPLama said:

"Jamie Wilson" wrote in message ...

Quoted message said:

Just wanted to know how do they measure the gradient of a hill.

I turn to Jaywoo and say "what's the gradient of this hill".. he looks down
at his VDO MC1.0 (?) trip computer.. and he replies with the %age.. it's
great 🙂...

cheers,
GPL

so what's the steepest bit between Warrandyte n KGround then?
and how steep is Burgundy St, and, and, and...

adam85 said:

Climbs are measured in gradient, percentage of height by horizontal
distance. i.e. 10% gradient climbs 100m in 1km. Goodwill bridge dunno,
maybe 6% at it's steepest??

I've recorded some of the climbs around Brisbane here:
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/passion-fingers/Climbs.html

might want to change the \ to / in the links 😉

cheers,

kim

On 2005-07-19, adam85 (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Here's how the TdF categories work:
http://www.gastoncountycyclists.com/FunStuff/rating%20climbs.html

Gah! So Burgandy road is likely to be cat 4 or off-scale.

--
TimC
"I give up," said Pierre de Fermat's friend. "How DO you keep a
mathematician busy for 350 years?"

quote='Kim Hawtin'adam85 said:

Climbs are measured in gradient, percentage of height by horizontal
distance. i.e. 10% gradient climbs 100m in 1km. Goodwill bridge dunno,
maybe 6% at it's steepest??

I've recorded some of the climbs around Brisbane here:
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/passion-fingers/Climbs.html

might want to change the \ to / in the links 😉

cheers,

kim[/QUOTE]

Whereabouts?

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Gah! So Burgandy road is likely to be cat 4 or off-scale.

--
TimC

Yeah, but it's the lights and traffic at the top of the hill that are the
real killers! Thank god the hospital is so close!
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adam85 said:

Kim said:

adam85 said:

maybe 6% at it's steepest??

I've recorded some of the climbs around Brisbane here:
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/passion-fingers/Climbs.html

might want to change the \ to / in the links 😉

Whereabouts?

in each of the URLs on that page, the one before the filename.
they came up as '%5C' instead of '\' in my browser...
they all should be '/'.
'\' is a dozer thing.

cheers,

kim