multimodal commuter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: NJ, NYC, LI
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Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...
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According to my cyclocomputer, the average speed on my bike is 11.3 mph. That includes walking in the train station, and walking from the coffee vender to my office, and that kind of thing. Actually riding the bike, I can maintain a speed in the 15-19 mph range pretty much indefinitely, and for a short while I can hit 25 mph on level ground. On a downhill I've hit 36 mph.
But you know, speed isn't what a folding bike is all about. For my purposes, the best feature of the folding bike is that I can fold it up and take it on public transportation. According to my gps, the fastest I've gone with that bike is 100 mph; apparently the NJTransit trains are limited to 100 mph. Yes, the bike goes 100 mph while I'm asleep! Of course, I'm not riding it at the time, but still... you can't do that with the non-folding model!