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07-27-12 | 05:59 PM

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Bikes: 1949 Hercules Kestrel, 1950 Norman Rapide, 1970 Schwinn Collegiate, 1972 Peugeot UE-8, 1976 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Jack Taylor Tandem, 1984 Davidson Tandem, 2010 Bilenky "BQ" 650B Constructeur Tandem, 2011 Linus Mixte

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Originally Posted by noglider

iab, I'm totally with you. There have been lots and lots of good comments here.

I like to go slowly, too, most of the time, but them sometimes I like to go fast. What does that mean? I dunno.

I'm able to keep up with friends these days. That's good. When I hear of rides that go at 18 mph, I get scared. Then the riders tell me I'll do fine. And I do. I don't think we really go 18.

I know that our rolling average speed on the Bilenky a couple weeks back was 14.8 MPH. My GPS app is set up so that if the bike stops the GPS pauses. I think that was pretty good given my ride up there 3 weeks earlier ended up with an average of only about 12.5 MPH.

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