Best Rate of Climb

bernithebiker
bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
edited January 2016 in Road general
Whilst climbing the other day, my mind was drifting off (again) and I wondered what grade of slope would give the best rate of climb (i.e. the most metres up per second).

Intuition would say the steepest climb would be the winner, but I'm not so sure, as there comes a point where you tend to bog down on slopes >10%.

I seem to go best on slopes of about 4 to 5%, i.e. the easier gradient is compensated for by a proportionally higher speed, and therefore a higher vertical m/s.

Am I talking gibberish?
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