I usually ride faster than my average pace.

I put about seven miles on my '95 Trek 930 today....for a change just casual riding around local MUPs as opposed to it's these days usual duty as a grocery getter. One thing I've come to really appreciate about this bike is its rudimentary, OEM Trek cyclometer. Readout is current mph and cumulative odo distance. No average speed/top speed/current ride stats to be ashamed of later. Kinda like back when I was kid...just out there riding around on an old pot metal framed coaster brake bike and enjoying myself/the ride.

Guess tomorrow I'll have to get back down to business.

If I ride for 1 minute,it's about 25 MPH.....If I ride for 12 hours it's about 10MPH.

Mines around 17.6 to 18.6 for 35 to 45 miles when I'm alone, but in group rides it gets bumped up or down a bit dependent on who I'm riding with.

Here's the thing with average pace that I notice. I ride a perfectly flat bike trail every day, just 6 out and 6 back for an hour of exercise. Sometimes it's more, but that is my typical ride. I cruise on this trail in the middle of nowhere with no one else around on my hybrid with my 235 lb of weight at a steady 15-16 mph the entire time. I only slow down after I go through the tunnel and turn around, which is slow. Then I ride 15-16 mph the entire 6 miles back slowing down when I reach the parking lot to arrive at my car.

The less than a minute transitioning from the parking lot to on the trail and up to speed, less than a minute slowing down to turn around after the tunnel at 6 miles, and less than a minute slowing down to transition from the trail to the parking lot to get to my car puts my average consistently at about 12.5 mph every time. That's about 3-4 minutes off of a 15-16 mph cruising speed over the course of roughly 50 minutes that knocks the average down to 12.5.

That said, on the flat bike trail I am at 12.5 mph with cruising consistently at 15-16 mph.

On the road is entirely different. I have no in-between. I am either extremely flat on the trail or nothing but hills on the road. 10 miles gives me 1100-1400 feet of climbing and I am usually about 10 mph.

Yesterday's ride was really flat to me, 15.8 miles and 1018.2 ft. of climb. Average speed 10.3 mph with 29.7 mph top speed (I don't hammer on the downhills, I usually relax a bit since I just did my work climbing up.) Moving time was 1:31:49 with 55:16 going up and 36:33 going down. 1:53:32 was overall duration because I saw a friend out in her yard as I was cutting through the neighborhood and stopped to talk with her for a bit.

I don't monitor my speed, but I am pretty slow. That used to bother me, but now I don't particularly care -- as long as the slowness isn't due to crippling pain, heat stroke or exhaustion.

It appears I am in the middle of the pack. I have averaged between 16-17 mph over the last 6 months. Have only been riding that long. I have reached a plateau and even though when I look at my cateye ,the speed is more than that most of the time, my averages are not increasing. Of course, the miles are getting longer and it is easier to maintain that speed. Guess I am improving.

i commute so my average is less than the pace i go at unobstructed. it appears i go 15-16 mph when unobstructed (and more than that when on a descent) but in traffic it's usually 9-12 mph to account for lights, obstacles, etc. so my avg pace is around 12-14 mph.

Hmmm, I'll agree with the others. Too many variables to say it's anything all that meaningful. Wind, diet, weight, route, etc all come into play. I pretty much ride alone daily and my shortest route is 20 but most days it's a bit more. Now I had two off years and just started hitting it heavy again in my August. I do log all my rides though.

Here's what a quick look at my stats since I started in 2010 show.

2010 15.33 mph for a total of 3049 miles
2011 17.25 mph for a total of 8285 miles
2012 17,57 mph for a total of 5514 miles
2013 16,76 mph for a total of 3474 miles
2014 14.19 mph for a total of 1122 miles
2015 17.04 mph for a total of 1881 miles

What does all that mean, nothing. Over those years I put miles on three old steel bikes, 3 CF bikes, a mountain for winter use, and a aluminum CX bike. Some years I did more climbing than others. I've ridden standard doubles, compact doubles, and even a triple. I ride in all weather and year round when I serious about it. To include using an old mountain bike with studded snow tires, fenders, and a rack in winter storms with temps into the negatives.

So how do I really view avg speed, ride by ride I guess. Today I did around 51 miles on my Lemond Tourmelet. Temps in the low 50s, overcast, and quite windy. No food on the ride, just one bottle of water and one bottle of diluted gatorade. I averaged 17.4 which I considered very good for the winds today. Yet I ran pretty much the same ride a week ago on a calm, warm day and actually was a 10th of a mph slower on the average. I considered that ride a poor effort. Any ride over 18.5 is a good day, 19s and 20s take a lot of effort and more importantly concentration to do. I ride for fun and like to enjoy myself so riding faster is normally not my goal. Personally I wouldn't worry all that much about your speed.

Average speed is somewhat subjective. Average for a one-mile sprint? For my 10-12-mile commute? or a Century??
My all-time best flying mile was a tad over 27mph. You Strava-junkies are safe!!!!
My commute -- where I ride quickly for the first 80%, then have a slower 'cool-down' portion so I don't arrive to work all sweaty is more like 17-18mph (including counting the time stopped at traffic lights)
For a Century, my goal is to finish in under seven hours including rest/meal stops for a 14.2 average speed, but a closer to 16mph riding speed.

I'm pretty much the opposite. I'm so fast I can't keep up with myself.

Wow, 35? thats blazing

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Usually right around 12mph.

Approximately 12 MPH. Commute to work, go out at lunch, commute home, although 10/31 and 11/7 were my first and second 50 milers. Apparently the 27 MPH winds at lunch today slowed me down.

Mine is measure in hours per mile.