Today our group averaged 20+ mph over 67 miles with 3200’ of climbing.

Tobi Keith's song can be SO TRUE >>>


but sadly in my case, not even "....As I Once Was...." anymore. :(

I seldom average over 11 mph.
So there.

On the Trike, I average 9 mph. On my last two-wheeler, a Giant city bike, I averaged just short of 15. I tell people 30.

I discovered that my single-speed Schwinn Trike goes from zero to 5 in less than 30 minutes.

I stop often, take pictures, chat with people I meet on the trails. At 75, I'll get there when I get there.

June 2021 update. Did 54 miles in high 80s and low 90s with 2000’ climbing with an average speed of 18 MPH. Top speed 40. Age 66.

Pretty much stuck. Solo rides from 20 to 40 miles coming in around 20mph (19 to 21 range) provided not too much wind or vertical. At 64 now, it's definitely a half step off where I was 10 years ago. So be it.

LibertyFLS This morning on your old bike.
Tim

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Post #10 by Wildwood - that's beautiful. Love that shot of cycling joy.

40 mph (64kmh) downhill on slightly twisty downhill pavement on the old Bianchi Nyala. My equal half just shook her head
Top speed back in the days (mid 1980s) 80+ kmh on the Nishiki on a road with a few gentle curves.

The SilverStar climb is an the menu .... after the weather gets back to what I consider normal. 18+ km, grade up to 16% with very few relaxing sections in between. Best part? Blasting down on the return trip.

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Early Morning Perfect Weather
 

I'm 76, riding 50-75 miles a week. Average speed is 10-12 mph with splits (downhill and with a tail wind) up to 25-30 mph.

This the ride data that I saved from January to end of August 2019. Fastest was just over 60.

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there’s always mile a minute murphy


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Minthorn_Murphy

ive hit 60 going down a mountain but that was when bike computers were a new fangled thing. 50 s is easier to hit. In the hills near me 40s are about the most I’ll hit and it wouldn’t surprise me if I start to slack off the next time I head out to a hilly area where I can hit those speeds. Heck I might not reinstall my bike computer. I haven’t used one this year. I like riding without one. It reminds me of when I first started racing and training. At this point it’s just about quality time in the saddle and your speed doesn’t tell you that

In my case, not sure "fast" is the word to use. More like "not slow."

In all seriousness, I average between 13-16 MPH depending on bike and who I'm riding with. I'm sure I could go faster, but I'd be riding by myself.😐

17.6 - 103.8 in the last six days - breaking in the new T5.

Tim that’s awesome! I have been meaning to shoot you a text and see how it’s going! Glad you’re enjoying the bike :thumb:

Last night? Not very fast. With high humidity, I overheated and slowed to 14mph on the final flat section, no wind. Sweating like buckets on the last half of a 16mi ride. Temps were only 75deg but humidity was 90%.

About 10 years ago I was averaging around 20-21mph. I took a long time off and have just recently gotten back into cycling. My current pace, as of yesterday, is 15.8mph over a 12 mile flat course. That is up from 13mph two weeks ago when I first got back into it. My goal is to get back up to around 18-19mph by the fall.

Close to where I live there's a fairly big hill on a highway that I like to bomb down. I don't like riding that highway much because it's a 60 MPH road with no shoulders, but one of my routes puts me on it for just one mile, with the hill being at the beginning. So last time I rode down it on my current road bike, which was the first time I've ever ridden it on this bike, I put it in high gear and started pedaling down. It was probably equal parts exhilarating and frightening, but it certainly got the adrenaline flowing. I think I topped out at around 37 MPH or so. The road is nice & smooth (especially compared to the chip sealed road you take to get there) and I was in control the whole time, but at the back of my mind I was thinking "this is really gonna hurt if you crash."

But generally, my rides tend to average around 12-13 MPH. When I'm doing my morning 10 miles for exercise, usually between 13-14. On long rides for fun, it tends to be a bit slower.

Friend and myself blasting down the hill at 80kmh (50mph) My friend yells "I have to slow down!!", his front wheel started oscillating in a big way.
Me: "so what happened?"
Him: "I had the bike in for a tune up ...... yesterday."
Me: "I like to do my own tune ups." :50:

A great lesson imparted to me, decades ago: Never do maintenance on a bike the day before a "challenging" ride.

Sure helps keep things safer, knowing it's been flogged at least a few times prior to being taken down rough descents, or across challenging XC routes, on a long tour far from telephones and fresh water ...

Of course, I've always been a bit of a cycling hill wimp, in a way. Only went down a ~4mi ~12-15% grade once. Didn't trust things enough to feel comfortable, on that road. Far too many cliffs off one side, too many occasional cars appearing in the "blind" corners, etc. Once was enough. Even with wheels that ran true.

Happier in my dotage puttering about on the upright "city" bike. No hair streaming behind me, or on fire, but I'm okay with that.

I'm in North Georgia, where there are plenty of mountains. Once I joined a Florida group in one of those screaming fast pace lines - Fun, but that 'always on' threshold endurance zone was super hard for me to hold. I can see how that's satisfying if you're good at it