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Marc - Since you want to allow for future equipment, you will probably need to be pretty conservative. I would say no more than 1% or 2%. It's not hard to test the "climbing ability" of your current equipment - just put a length of straight track down on a board and see how your equipment does when one end of the board is elevated to various degrees. Remember that a grade going around a curve will feel "steeper", by maybe 50% depending on the curve radius.
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