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Old 01-07-09, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulRivers
I'm curious to - what do you think the typical speed you right at changes to? With my new road bike, on flat pavement with no wind my typical speed is 19mph in the summer. My brother, with a slower bike and no bike shoes typically goes about 13 mph on his road bike. I was hoping to be going at least 13mph on my winter bike with studded tires, but maybe that's a little to optimistic...I'm buying Schwable Marathon Winter studded tires as these seemed like the fastest tires that are studded and still able to handle some snow...(my own opinion plus one recent post convinced me that the A10's wouldn't handle snow well enough)
I don't even want to know. I'm a pretty fast rider, but I take winter for what it is, and I don't have a computer on my single speed winter bike it would be too disheartening. Staying upright and getting there are enough.
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