Originally Posted by
SpeshulEd
I don't think anyone is saying hitting 25mph is hard, it's the maintaining it and averaging that at the end of a ride that is hard, unless you have your garmin setup to never record speed data under 15mph or something.
I can easily maintain 20-25mph on a flat with fresh legs and little to no wind. I can even dial it up and hold 30mph for awhile. I've ridden a five hour century before.
But to average 25ish mph on every ride is a bold statement. Either that rider is in a location with little to no stop signs and low traffic or they're a beast. I can pedal my ass off for an hour (my commute home) and only average 19.5mph because there are 30 stops in between work and home.
If a person can make all of those stops and sprint up to 25+mph after each one where the rider holds an average of 25mph, than they should probably start racing and wait for the pro contracts to come in.
Ha ha, I remember trying to rent out an apartment (in a not so nice area) by telling the potential tenant: "it only took me 6 minutes to get here from campus!" (I had ridden 2.5 miles slightly downhill). Of course, I absolutely had to haul a-- like never before and semi-disregard stop signs along the way.
A leisurely commute ride would've taken more like 15.