Originally Posted by
raybo
You might find this other bikeforums.net thread of interest:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...Day-of-Touring
It contained this:
A good, somewhat general purpose, way to calculate calories burned is to use a coefficient. I use a coefficient of 0.28 - calories/mile/pound.
DISTANCE * WEIGHT * COEFFICIENT = CALORIES BURNED
So if you do 70 miles and weigh 165 lbs and carry 45 lbs:
70 * (165 + 45) * .28 = 4116 calories
Ray
This might work for you (although I kind of wonder how), but this is by no means a blanket statement for cycling tourists. More goes into calories burnt than distance, weight and "coefficient". How hard you cycle, gears used (or not used), head winds, hills, temperature outside (you burn more calories in hot weather) and more intangible things go into figuring this out. 4k calories in a 70 mile day with 50 pounds of gear seems "low" to me, but I guess it has to do with all those other factors.