How long did it take you to average 20mph
 

how long did it take you to average 20mph for a distance of 10+ miles.

no head or tail wind and no hills. just flat.

:popcorn

I am still working on that...What is the prize?

Why is everyone so concerned about average speed in a pseudo vacuum ("no head or tail wind and no hills. just flat.")?

I was able to do that on my mountain bike with partially inflated knobbies on a dirt trail my very first ride. Then I dialed it up to 500W to drop some roadies.

I bet a lot of riders (myself included) could hit 20+ mph for an extended period of time if we had no wind on a perfectly flat course.

Let me know when you find a road like that and I will test it out. I live in Minnesota and I don't think i can find a road like that anywhere around here...

Too easy.

30+ minutes.

This is how i know you're lying.

It's drope.

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Took me one year minus the winter where I -admittedly- hardly rode out.

No wind. In that case never. I live by the ocean. It's windy all the time.

But in all honesty I skipped 20 mph avg and went straight to 30 mph avg. No point in being 2nd best.

I keep wearing out my brakes slowing down for school zones

i did it last year (first year where i really trained) on a mtb while simultaneously peeling a banana, reading a book and eating a gu, but i broke 20 mph by over 6.9 mph. so it took me two rides to have a 26.9 mph average over 163 miles with 20,000 feet of elevation gain :)

wimp

30 minutes. Duh.

Don't know how long it took me to be able to reach that speed, but I imagine that I was able to do it only a few months after beginning cycling. I live by the sea , so there is always some wind. And there are no flats that are that long in my area. I have never bothered with the average speeds anyway. It's your results in races that counts, not your average speed in training.

About the only time I have tried to reach a high average speed in a training session was a month ago when I was out alone, it was windy and I got bored. I had a 20 mph average on a 70 mile hilly course which I think is fairly good :)

Your comment may be less funny and exagerated than you think.
On long stretches of flat dirt trail next to some fields I can maintain 20mph for a very long time while on my hybrid with cyclocross tires.
500W may sound like a lot but many people can "dial it up" to that for a short time and then recover afterwards ... pro racers go to 1500 or 2000.

To answer the OP's question seriously: it took about a year. It probably would have taken a lot less time if I went about training in any kind of systematic way. I was just doing what a lot of noobs do: riding kinda hard too much, not doing true intervals, and not doing any easy rides.

Same here.
Aparently I am still a noob because I do ride too hard too much and have a very hard time trying to do recovery rides.
I should get into these "intervals" I suppose ... thanks for pointing that out.

I know BF and all but I don't understand. I started cycling for the first time since childhood on a crap dept store mtn bike, then a few months later I got a crap dept store-like road bike with absolute crap components(new but 7 speed freewheel, china-only shimano parts and stuff) and on my first rides I was already averaging 20mph.

I live at 2600m of elevation though so there's less air resistance but still. I would have guessed with a decent bike and wheels(and clipless pedals etc) I would have gone 22mph a few months into starting.

The only thing I care about is that I suck on the ascents. :(

lol at some of the replies.

thanks for those that actually weren't being sarcastic. i didn't realize my question was viewed in such ways by some of you. just asking cause i just got in to the sport and i was curious. if you don't ask then you'll never know. anyways its the internet right?

btw i should of said minimal wind. cause its impossible to have no wind. thanks for pointing that out. :)

+1

Still not there yet :s

The difference in height above sea level is pretty big though.
Considering me living at 50m with my bike and weight it takes me about 250 Watts to keep at 20MPH
Considering you living at 2600m and your bike and weight would be the same as mine it would only take 200 Watts to do the same.
That's a 25% difference there.