Originally Posted by
CrankyOne
I'm sitting upright on a 30-something pound city bike. I just want to get where I'm going and enjoy the ride. I accomplish both. Probably average about 12 mph I'd guess. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Well, almost anything.
Occasionally I'll throw on some kit and hop on a road bike and then I'm pushing it which for me these days is lower 20's for an hour or so.
average speeds are tricky. On a road or unladen cx bike, when I'm feeling frisky but not quite racey my average
cruising speed on a commute might be 20mph. But if I have mapmyride running for that ride, my "average speed" is often way down to 13 or less, because of stops. On my beater, where I rarely push it and often cruise down at 15mph, my average is probably 11mph, though I rarely use GPS tracking on those rides