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Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE!
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 2006-06-15 9:58 AM |
Regular  89  Little Rock, AR |  Subject: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE!My existing route is pretty flat. I’m going to add hills to my rides, lots of hills. I’m planning to use bimactive.com to track my total uphill distance for each ride. Anyone else interested? I’m open to all suggestions to keep it interesting. Thanks! |
| 2006-06-15 10:29 PM in reply to: #455102 |
Veteran 301 Seattle | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! That's a great idea - set goals to climb a certain number of thousands of feet... I am doing Triple Bypass century too, which is like 10,000 feet of climbing, so I am all for it. The only challenge is to measure the elevation gain, not everybody has that feature on their computers |
| 2006-06-16 12:11 AM in reply to: #455102 |
Coach 9167  Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Dude, I am SO with you as I will be in Estes Park, CO for all of July & August. Climb on! |
| 2006-06-16 10:44 AM in reply to: #456131 |
Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! devotchkatata - 2006-06-15 10:29 PM The only challenge is to measure the elevation gain, not everybody has that feature on their computers That's a good point. I like the feature on the bimactive.com site. Here are the results from my last ride - Distance: 17.02 miles Total Uphill: +954 ft (BiM_Image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BiM_Image.jpg (9KB - 43 downloads) |
| 2006-06-16 2:36 PM in reply to: #455102 |
Coach 9167 Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Anyone can use BIM Active to make the profiles like the post above. YOu can enter routes manually, with a GPS, or with your GPS phone. All 3 options will get you a cool route profile that you can paste into your own blog! |
 2006-06-16 2:56 PM in reply to: #456170 |
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| 2006-06-16 5:15 PM in reply to: #456925 |
Pro 4578 Vancouver, BC | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Does BIM Active cover Canada too? I think this is a great challenge, but I haven't used this software before, so it may be difficult for me to set goals. |
| 2006-06-18 8:12 PM in reply to: #455102 |
Champion 6285 Beautiful Sonoma County | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Is it possible to use the www.gmap-pedometer.com site's elevation? |
| 2006-06-19 2:20 PM in reply to: #457116 |
| Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! jeng - 2006-06-16 5:15 PM Does BIM Active cover Canada too? I think this is a great challenge, but I haven't used this software before, so it may be difficult for me to set goals. I believe it does cover Canada. This is my 1st attempt to track climbing so I'm not sure about goal setting either. If nothing else, July can act as motivation to add hills to the ride & serve as a baseline for future climbing goals. |
| 2006-06-19 2:21 PM in reply to: #458117 |
| Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! madkat - 2006-06-18 8:12 PM Is it possible to use the www.gmap-pedometer.com site's elevation? As long as it provides total uphill distance, I don't think it matters which site is used. |
| 2006-06-20 12:27 PM in reply to: #458117 |
| Science Nerd 28760 Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! madkat - 2006-06-18 9:12 PM Is it possible to use the www.gmap-pedometer.com site's elevation? gmap-pedometer.com won't give you the elevation profile. The only site I know of (there might be others) is bimactive.com. I think that bimactive is actually a little easier to use and you get more information and the cool elevation profiles. |
| 2006-06-20 12:28 PM in reply to: #455102 |
| Science Nerd 28760 Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! I think the idea of a vertical bike challenge is great! I'm definitely interested. Setting goals might be a little hard. I'll have to take a look at some of the routes I'm currently riding. |
| 2006-06-20 10:28 PM in reply to: #460447 |
| Veteran 324 Spokane, Washington | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Artemis - 2006-06-20 10:27 AM gmap-pedometer.com won't give you the elevation profile. The only site I know of (there might be others) is bimactive.com. I think that bimactive is actually a little easier to use and you get more information and the cool elevation profiles. Note - Gmap is now doing elevation if you ask it to. It is an option for both a small and large profile, but is not done by default. also It won't tell you how many vertical feet gained, you'll just have to guess by looking at the profile. |
| 2006-06-20 10:41 PM in reply to: #456170 |
| Elite 3489 Lakewood, CO | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! AdventureBear - 2006-06-15 11:11 PM Dude, I am SO with you as I will be in Estes Park, CO for all of July & August. Climb on! How cool, Estes and RMNP are so awesome that time of year (or really any time of year IMO) |
| 2006-06-21 8:03 AM in reply to: #461126 |
| Coach 9167 Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! jcjsc00 - 2006-06-20 11:41 PM AdventureBear - 2006-06-15 11:11 PM Dude, I am SO with you as I will be in Estes Park, CO for all of July & August. Climb on! How cool, Estes and RMNP are so awesome that time of year (or really any time of year IMO) Yes, they are awesome at ALL times of the year. If I was a super ultra millionaire (?billionaire), I would buy MacGregor Ranch, just to look at it, the cows, the mountains, the elk and lumpy ridge! And I would open the museum from time to time (never seen it open!) |
| 2006-06-23 10:39 AM in reply to: #455102 |
| Extreme Veteran 306 AZ | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! I'm interested in this challenge. I tried to set up the bimactive.com program last evening but I am not very savvy in that department. I'll have to play with it some more but I have a Garmin 301 so I can still measure my elevations with that. |
| 2006-06-23 3:04 PM in reply to: #455102 |
| Extreme Veteran 455 Centennial, CO | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Hmmm....This challenge intrigues me! I just may have to 'climb' onboard - ok lame...I know...I agree with the "how to set a goal" issue as I have no idea how much elevation I currently climb - although I'm sure its minimal.
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| 2006-06-24 1:37 PM in reply to: #456549 |
| Extreme Veteran 306 AZ | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Ok, i'm trying to figure this out. Did the software calculate the total uphill feet or did you do it manually from the map? |
| 2006-06-25 9:45 PM in reply to: #455102 |
| Extreme Veteran 470 Madison, WI | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! I'm in, but not sure how to estimate the elevation gain. I know I'll be doing hills once/week and riding the IMWI course loops a number of times. I'll try to come up w/ something... |
| 2006-06-26 12:36 PM in reply to: #464612 |
| Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! The website provides total uphill feet. The 954 stated by the website differed from my initial estimate of "a gazillion". |
| 2006-06-27 5:15 PM in reply to: #455102 |
| Coach 9167 Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Well, a gazillion is pretty close. |
| 2006-06-28 1:32 PM in reply to: #455102 |
| Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: Need your help - I'm pondering various categories/awards/honorific titles for the Vertical Challengers. Here's what I have so far: Ride with the steepest grade (vertical_climb / horizontal_distance)= The Gasper King/Queen Ride with greatest total uphill distance = Sherpa Guide Ride w/ most impressive/horrific graph = ???? suggestions? Anything else fun to track? |
| 2006-07-05 1:50 PM in reply to: #455102 |
| Coach 9167 Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! I wish that BIM would add an interactive java applet, so that you could mouse over part of the graph and get the grade at that spot, otherwise it's just a guess! Maybe that's a lot to ask, since a graph is pretty simple. I am not setting any vertical feet challenges per say, just want to track them. Last summer it was nice usign my garmin GPS to track vertical feet per ride in Colorado, then seeing what I would have to do in Pennsylvania to get the same vertical in per ride. |
| 2006-07-10 12:07 PM in reply to: #455102 |
| Extreme Veteran 455 Centennial, CO | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Todays ride for the verticle bike challenge...
This is the map from Motionbased...It said I had 1069 ft in gain and really shows the small rollers on the path better.....but....Bones in motion:
gave the same ride only 788 ft of total climb - I'm thinking the 788 is probably a bit more accurate????...plus I want to be conservative in my estimates for the challenge...so I'll count the 788 in my total to date.
So total to date in climbing: 5156 ft of climbing so far for the month of July. |
| 2006-07-12 1:11 AM in reply to: #455102 |
| Veteran 250 | Subject: RE: Proposal for July – VERTICAL BIKE CHALLENGE! Edited by donmck 2006-07-12 1:12 AM (BiM_Image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BiM_Image.jpg (9KB - 34 downloads) |
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