How fast do you guys ride? (MPH) - Page 2

Lotoja is wicked! 21.2 MPH is fast. I'm currently having a hard time riding more than 3 hrs at 17 MPH . How'd you stack up? Sounds like you finished not far behind my friend Norm who got 3rd overall 2 years ago.

EDIT: Never mind, I just found it: http://www.cyclingforums.com/t-377472-15-8.html

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It was quite a ride, more carnival than race with riders from all groups mixed together. About twenty miles in we all coalesced into a megapelaton of several hundred riders till we hit the first big climbs. Ones, twos, threes, fours, fives, master 35s, master 45s, tandems... I looked down at one point and saw we were doing 51 mph and I was at least 100 riders deep with maybe twice as many behind me with five to six riders abreast. I kept thinking "nobody do anything stupid...." A crash up front would have resulted in triage with a group that size descending at that speed.

Anyway I finished 11th in the Master's 45 group and 71st overall out of 1460 riders. No world records, but a ride I'm happy with.

-Dave

When the season starts after no biking for maybe 3 months (a cold winter or hot rainy summer to blame) I avg 14.7 mph on a fat burning workout. Then it goes up to 18.9 mph avg. All this on the flat Chicago Lake Shore Drive bike path. Just to do 20 mph avg on a workout ride - I hit 91.35% MHR - which wouldn't burn much fat. In fact all my rides are fat burning workouts or else I consider riding a waste of my time.

I like to eat, so I have to ride!

Highest speed sprint - 32.9 mph flats no wind.

My avg is around 16-19 mph, but I'm not really all that fit.

Depends on day and how much sleep I got the night before (effects on HR).


Rest days...spinning 15-18mph
Aerobic days...spinning or turning big gears 18-22mph
TT...24-26mph
Sprinting...35 (pretty much my max due to crappy junior gearing)

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Scott CR-1 Pro
-Garmin Edge 705
-Shimano Ultegra 10
-Mavic Ksyrium Elite
-Fulcrum Racing 3

Today, I did 28.939124 mph average for my six hour base training ride in zone 2. I start ramping up next month. My rooster is 8.5 inches. I don't know what that is in metric.

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Damn, Dave, you must have really been spinning that granny gear!

Everytime I'm sleep deprived, I seemed to ride better on our Sun morning training rides. Weird!

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Morphed Bianchi Camaleonte IV 2006, Ridley Damocles 2006, Garmin, Mac

How fast do I ride? 0.1mph faster than sogood. 0.2 if there's a strain on his face. 1.0 if there's a big strain on his face.

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averaged about 20-21 mph on my full squishy with knobby 2.1 tires made for dirt

Solo training rides on the brake hoods and top bar
Up a mountain 8mph
Down a mountain 49mph(drops)
Flat 20mph 20 minutes
Rolling hills 18.4mph 1hr 15min
Rolling hills 15.6mph 6hr

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19.3 MPH for 1hr 30 min up a 1% grade (OK, it's simulated 1% grade on the Kurt Kinetic ),
58 MPH downhill for 30 sec,
8.5 MPH up 7.9% grade ave. for 41 min,
45 MPH down 7.9 % grade ave. for 8 min,

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The only impressive number I could state at the moment is 40 to 0 in less than 2 seconds. The result was not good.

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I've had a couple of those but not quite that extreme. Stopping unexpectedly is much more fun than going fast

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Here is a picture of that episode. (Select the Speed menu on the left.)

This year I would like to climb that hill at 7+ pace and hopefully not crash going down the other side.

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