Originally Posted by HiYoSilver
Yeah, on the flats add 10 mph. It depends on how I am feeling and the wind. Flats float between 19 and 21. Again almost on magic milestone, but not quite there.
It's allright for the roadies, but us offroaders have problems averaging 9 mph for a ride, let alone 10. Mountain bike, knobblies at offroad presures and on the Flat bits on the road, 15mph is our norm. Then theres the hills- Hills? short 200metres of slope will drop the speed to 10mph. 1000metres at 10% will see me drop to around 8 and Extremehills, 15to 20% will see me drop to 5 or 6mph. Then we get offroad. 4 mph up the long steep hills seems to be average. On the flat ,if there are any, we can still get to 15mph or higher, and 30+ is the norm when gravity takes over.
Speed is not my forte, but endurance is. That 9 mph by the way, can be sustained for our annual offroad 100miler, so forget speed, look at endurance and how much you enjoy the ride.