Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator v1.01 Freeware (c) 1995 by Greg Kondrasuk ------------------------------------------------------------- Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator is an OS/2 PM program that calculates the number of calories expended on a bicycle ride. It is based on an article in the May 1989 issue of Bicycling Magazine, pp. 100-103. It provides a good estimate of the number of calories burned based on time, distance, rider weight, wind speed and direction, drafting, and climbing. It is not meant to be a completely accurate calculator and playing with the input values will reveal that the equations break down for very small and very large average speed values. Calorie expediture values seem very reasonable for average speeds between 5 and 30 mph. The interface is very straight-forward--click on the various radio and spin buttons to set the values appropriate to your ride and press the Calculate button. The results appear at the bottom of the screen. All radio and spin buttons will display a help message at the bottom of the screen when the mouse is place over them. Several entry fields are dependent on the course type of the ride and any irrelevant radio and spin buttons are disabled based on that setting. The program defaults to English units, but can toggle and convert between English and Metric via the Units menu on the menubar. This program is my first with Hockware's excellent VisPro REXX 3.0. Highly recommended! If you use this software, please email me and let me know. I am curious to see how widely used it becomes. I am also eager to hear any user questions/comments/suggestions. Feel free to email me at gregk@edp.net (mailbox open 24 hours a day!). Ayone doing so will be placed on a mailing list and will be notified of any updates. Enjoy! History --------------------------------------------------------------- 16 Dec 1995 - Initial v1.0 release 21 Dec 1995 - v 1.01 release -Added 1/10 mile/km spin button -Added accelerator keys to menus -Modified calculations to make percent of ride spent climbing applicable in both loop and point-to-point rides. This seems to contradict the calculation worksheet as it originally appeared in Bicycling Magazine, but it seems to make more sense.