Speed is very much 'it depends'. Myself; on the road I can sometime still hang with the regional racers & do OK in the sprint (but usually I'm dropped on the big climb). But usually I'm just tooling along on some endurance ride, As I'm getting into bikepacking, and having a huge endurance motor matters more.

I’ve been talked into doing something that’s called the ‘Horrible 100’’ here in Fl in November Though they are doing their best to scare me with tales of how hard some of the hills are. I suspect what you do on a routine bases has more vertical than I’ll do!

Yep, to go fast in a group here, it takes smooth pavement, some good riders to mostly pull me along, and every once in a while everything comes together with the group and it feels like we are flying.

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Slow. I ride slow. I’m happy to ride at all. And I’m guided by…sensations. Most of them are bad sensations. But whatever.

How fast? As fast as I can make the pedals go.

Pedals don’t go as fast as they used to, but there you have it. Getting passed on the climbs is an every day thing now.

I have a power meter now, which I pay attention to. I don’t care about the speed.

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I never measure how fast I ride. Sometimes it's fairly slow and leisurely. Sometimes I am wondering if I'm going fast enough that the crash would just kill me rather than leave me seriously maimed. I hate thinking I might survive only to be taken care of the rest of my days. LOL. I honestly just don't get into any kind of numbers. I ride purely for fun. I ride about 360 days a year. Some days it might be 5-10 miles or some days 20-40. It just depends on how I feel. I get to feeling good and push things sometimes and I think that's good, but I'm not going to kill my 53 year old self to try to match some numbers some 20 year old bean pole posted. LOL: And PS,I love you guys and I am in pretty good shape for my age regardless of how slow I am sometimes.

~22 miles today, average speed about 15, max about 34. I think mid 30-s is fast enough that it’s fun, but not reckless.

My max speed was 25 years ago. I was in Colorado and decided to ride up to Estes Park on US34. I had intended to try to ride up to the top of Trail Ridge Road but I'm a flatlander and my back was too sore just getting up to Estes Park. I hit 50mph on the descent. There is no way I could pedal. My big gear was 53/13 (and low gear 42/21 - again, a flatlander, and also the reason my back was sore).

I don't track it enough but pedal as fast as I can go and still be comfortable and enjoy my ride.

Yeah same here. Pretty hilly where I am, some of them long steep accents. The thrill for me is more about getting up faster than how fast I went down. So regular routes lap time upon ascent to peak, I check all the time, rest of ride is just warm down basically.

Good luck ascending at 80kph :lol: