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Old 07-13-09, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by puppypilgrim
Unbelievable. I ride alone over a 9 km roundtrip on a singlespeed bike on the flats and avg. 23 km/h (62 gear gear inches) - stopping legally for all traffic lights and intersections.

These guys climb the mountains as fast as I can cycle on the flats!!!
Yeah, it's absurd. My sustained sprint speed across a flat for twenty minutes is just over how fast they would be riding on an attack up the above climbs. Incredible.
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