
    Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator v2.0 - DWI Edition
    (c) 1998 by Greg Kondrasuk
    (c) 2004 by Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
    Released under the GNU Public License
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Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator was originally an OS/2 PM
program that Greg ported to Linux using the FLTK widget library.
The program calculates the number of calories expended on a bicycle
ride and 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 appropriate
radio buttons and set the text field values appropriate to your
ride and press the Calculate button.  The results appear at the
bottom of the screen.
 
The program defaults to English units, but can toggle and convert
between English and Metric via the Units menu on the menubar.
 
In order to compile the program, you must have the gob and DWI
installed.  The most recent version of gob can be obtained from
http://www.5z.com/jirka/gob.html.  If you are reading this, you 
already (should) have DWI, which you can get from
http://dwi.sourceforge.net

This edition matches the capabilities found in v1.01 FLTK version
for Linux, which in turn matched the capabilities found in v1.01 REXX 
version for OS/2.  This edition was rewritten by Linas Vepstas 
in DWI and gob.
 
Greg Kondrasuk, 1998
<kondrag@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6434

Linas Vepstas, 2004
<linas@linas.org>
http://dwi.sourceforge.net
