• BASIS

A climb's BASIS or ZERO BASIS is the time a professional would ride the climb.

• myTime

MyTime is your raw time posted for any given climb.

• timeDiffential

TimeDifferential is the time differential between the BASIS and myTime.

• percentDiff

PercentDiff is the time differential percentage differential bewteen the BASIS and myTime.

• effortLevel

EffortLevel is a subjective judegement of effort by you. We factor your effortLevel into our calculations as we assume that not every effort can be at 100%. We adjust for this fact.

• effortAdjustPercentDiff (C%)

EffortAdjustPercentDiff is the value result in consideration of your indicated effortLevel.

• ZERO TIME

The ZERO TIME is the estimated time you might ride on any given inputs of 'Q' and some climb metrics. We are developing a JAVASCRIPT CLIMB Calculator so you may quickly estimate how you might perform on any given climb.

ABOUT CLIMBS

• CLIMB RATING

The CLIMB RATING is an indexed value of the climb based on start elevation, elevation gain, and length. There is no upper limit. The following chart shows correlation between commonly used difficulty ratings used for UCI events and BikesUp!'s proprietory rating system. The CLIMB RATING considers start elevation, elevation gain, and distance.

Descriptive	Standard Categorization	Climb Rating
Extraordinary class 2	HC	100 >
Extraordinary class 1	HC	80 > 99
Difficult class 2	1	60 > 79
Difficult class 1	2	40 > 59
Moderate	3	20 > 39
Easy	4	0 > 19

• UCI RATING

Promoters of events sanctioned by the Union Cyclist International (UCI) have traditionally used a cardinal ranking system from 4 to 1 where "1" considered tres difficile. Climbs with perceived difficulty greater than "1" have classification as Hor de Category ("HC"). In Spanish events, "HC" climbs may be referred to as "Esp" (special). Promoters give consideration to a climbs placement within an event, i.e.: the closer to the finish may cause the climb to be ranked more difficult than the climb might otherwise rank.

• WORLD RANKING

As ActiveRiders and Guests enter a climb's data into the BikesUp! database, thus generating a Climb Rating, the WORLD RANKING is the ranking of the climb compared to the other climbs in the database.

ABOUT 'Q' and 'Qr'

• What's your 'Q'?

Your 'Q' is a normalized value as to how well you, on average, will perform on any climb. A golf handicap uses the same concept. You can expect to have a value like 12.5 or 23. Essentially, this value is how you compare to the BASIS time, or the time a professional might produce for any given course.

Your 'Q' is a handicap unique to your personal ride performance on a defined bicycle hill climb. Our proprietary algorythm uses the information that you enter in the database and normalizes or standardizes your performance. Your 'Q' is a performance value corrected for a climb's difficulty.

• How to create your 'Q'?

You need to post rides on an identified hill climb in the database. You begin to establish your 'Q' with your first post. As you continue to post rides, we perform calculations on ten of your most recent fifteen posts. We discard the best two efforts. We also correct for extrordinary 'slow' efforts by allowing only maximum times of 100% of your current 'Q' value in the calculations.

• How to use your 'Q'?

1. First, you need to know the BASIS for the hill climb. You can find the BASIS when viewing climb metric information. Also you will find the BASIS when viewing information about your posts. The BASIS is the time it would take a rider with a 'Q' of "0" to complete the climb.

2. Enter your 'Q' and use our calculator to figure out your ZERO-TIME. The ZERO-TIME is the time estimated for you to complete the climb based on your 'Q'.

3. You can use your 'Q' as a comparison to your friends or just for yourself. Or maybe just for fun! In anycase it works like this. Enter five data points or rides on a climb selected from the database for a fully qualified 'Q' we do some math, and presto, you have a 'Q'. Now tell your friend so that he or she will have one too.

• 'Qr' is the 'Q' generated for the indicated ride.

• How to use your 'Q' in designated Events

BikesUp! is developing "Q-Events" with bicycle hill climb event promoters. These events will have "GROSS" and "NET" classifications. When you enter an event, the promoter will register your 'Q' and normalize your result from your time, in this way compete on an even par with all participants.