Originally Posted by
capejohn
Burning 2000 calories on a bike ride seems like a stretch unless your riding for 8-10 hours.
You may be using incorrect information, skewing your calculations. Calories burned on a 40-60 mile bike ride is in the hundreds, not thousands.
p.s. You and I and everyone else knows that the only way to gain weight is to eat too much. Sometimes we just don't really realize how much we eat and if your like me, we really don't count everything.
My sources indicate that at my weight (192lbs) and at a 13.5 mph average speed over 3 hr 44 min I would burn 3066 calories. I have used several on-line calorie expenditure tools and this the average. How someone could ride a bicycle for 3 hr. 44 min. at 13-14 mph on a route with 3800 ft of elevation (yesterday's ride) and burn calories in the hundreds is beyond me.
I should note that this is pretty consistent with my gf's HRM set up and another rider's Strava app info.