Originally Posted by
Iride01
basically rise over run for grade or percent. The other is simply a degree as in angular measurement from the horizontal.
A 100% grade will be a 45° slope.
What Iride said. Everybody way overestimates the number of degrees in a hill slope. 10% is a pretty serious hill when you are riding up it but it's only 4.5 degrees.
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