Photos of your bike next to % grade signs
 

Anyone else like to take pics of their bike at the top of a climb, especially if it has a percent grade sign? Here's mine. I only have 2 of these with my bike next to the sign, so I'll take some more pics this summer. ;)

Prospectors Grade in Coloma, CA. 2.6 mile climb, max grade 16%.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/...33e530a93e.jpg
Near the top of Prospectors Grade by kittyz202, on Flickr

Bowman Road near Auburn, CA. Short steep painful one with a max grade of 13%. This is my profile pic.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/...eedabbf859.jpg
Bowman Road 12% grade sign by kittyz202, on Flickr

terrible thread. no powermeter results or garage doors.

:p:p:p

http://www.chainreaction.com/images/26percentgrade.jpg
State Route 108 in eastern California

That looks like a climb I've just GOT to do when I lose more weight! :D Is that Sonora Pass? That sign looks familiar. I thought I saw it posted here a while back.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/bike/096.jpg
Tuscany

New one from today's ride. This is Snows Road in Camino, CA. It is rated the toughest climb in El Dorado County.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5268/...cd0c02a437.jpg
Snows Road 11% grade sign by kittyz202, on Flickr

Screw the climb; I want a bike with the handling to do the descent without touching the brakes.

Wow. I haven't been over the Clyde/Athena forum in a while but I remember you. Congrats on the weight loss! How long did that take you?

Thanks. :) Just over a year. I started climbing again last May at 214 pounds. I weighed myself after yesterday's ride and I was 146.8, even though I drank plenty of water during the ride. We'll see if it stays that low later on this morning. ;) I'm doing more climbing today before and after watching (and recording) the Nevada City Classic, so maybe I'll lose a couple pounds this week.

New one from today's ride. This is Ice House Road in the Sierra Nevada mountains in El Dorado County.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...Rockhopper.jpg

That does look familiar! This one is 24% for the Pacific Grade (the pass after Ebbets when going from Markleeville, CA to Bear Valley):

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...centEbbets.jpg

Glacier National Park

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/5576/biketrip53m.jpg

Here's some new ones from last Saturday's ride. I took my Dahon Speed D7 7-speed folding bike because I drove a rental vehicle to the mountains and it's a PITA to put a full-size road bike in a typical sedan.

Top of the Lake Tahoe side of Kingsbury Grade
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Kingsbury Grade 9% grade sign & Dahon Speed D7 by kittyz202, on Flickr

Top of the Carson Valley side of Kingsbury Grade. I haven't climbed this yet, but I definitely will when I bring my road bike up there. ;)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6123/...c85b27558b.jpg
Kingsbury Grade 9% grade sign (east side) by kittyz202, on Flickr

Midway point of the Lake Tahoe side of Kingsbury Grade descent
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/...4edff548c3.jpg
midway point of Kingsbury Grade descent by kittyz202, on Flickr

New one from yesterday's ride. This is the top of of one of the steep sections of Mosquito Road near Placerville, CA.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/...fc56b3fe17.jpg
Mosquito Road 15% grade sign by kittyz202, on Flickr

What do I win?

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/a...d-ticj-2-1.jpg

If nothing else the knowledge that I literally laughed out loud when I read your post. Good job I didn't have any drink in my mouth or I think I would have sprayed my monitor...

New one from yesterday's ride. This is the top of the steepest section of Iowa Hill Road near Colfax in Placer County, CA.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/...12f778ea8a.jpg
Iowa Hill Road 15% grade sign by kittyz202, on Flickr

I was about to say that that's 200 %, but thinking about it, I realize such a grade cannot be expressed as a percentage.

My wife is from Des Moines and I am drug behind her when I have to visit the inlaws......there are no hills in Iowa, I call BS!!! :thumb: j/k

Actually, Agave's slope would be ∞%, if you subscribe to the idea that 1/0=∞.

~Al

Nerd.........

:p

A 100% grade is 45 degrees.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...egrees.svg.png

Makes me want to get out of Florida for a bit...

Only if you measure in terms of height gained per horizontal distance travelled. If you measure height gained per road distance travelled 100% is vertical.