skilsaw

I don't have a bike computer, but roughed these numbers in my head.
While I was loaded, I took 2.0 hrs to ride a 33 kms stretch of flat land.
That is 10 mph. (16 kilometres per hour sounds better)

How fast do you travel when loaded?

And then there is hill climbing. I'm just guessing at gradient because so few hills are posted. I can sustain riding in my granny gear for slopes up to 6%. For 8% to 12% hills, I need to stop and rest about every 1000 metres. I have to walk my loaded bike up hills greater than 12% grade.

What gradients can you ride?

Unfortunately, the only solution to this is to ride more hills. Yech!

CCrew

I'm happy to see 12mph loaded. If my wife is around it runs 9 or so. My normal cruise speed commuting 25mi each way is 15-17 depending on what bike I ride to give you a comparison. That's carrying a messenger bag with laptop, iPad and usually a change of clothes. I rarely if ever get off for hills, I tend to attack them.

antokelly

fully loaded 12mph. i think when your riding solo speed doesn't come into it so much.
when your with a group the speed always seems to creep up for some reason or other.
but yeah 12mph will do me thanks very much.

catfish

8-12 is where I am comfortable of course some days in the wind i am lucky to make 5 mph

Cyclebum

10 mph daily avg

fietsbob

last time I Checked, it was about 7mph, on average..

oneredstar

Average would be around 18 kph. I have had much slower days in the wind, but I have had calm days on flats where I was going 28 kph for over 3 hours.

Gus Riley

10 to 12 mph is about my daily average. But I'm running with 26" wheels, which I am convinced are a bit slower than 700s.

valygrl

9-13mph fully loaded with camping gear, as a daily average. There are occasional exceptions, but those are the numbers I see most often.

RepWI

12 MPH. It seems there is little difference between fully loaded and not. The Surly LHT just does what it wants. LOL

wahoonc

8-10 mph fully loaded under average conditions. Hills, wind, weather and traffic will affect that average.

Aaron

Gus Riley

Mine is just like that too! She's (Shirley) going to go only as fast as she wants to go...like a mule, if I try to push her, she wears me out! Shirley is stubborn like that. Luckily I have learned that while on tour, I'm usually not in a hurry, I have all day to get there...and if we don't make it, there is always stealth camping.

Bacciagalupe

I usually plan on 10mph, including snack and sight-seeing stops. I usually allow an hour or so for lunch.

nancy sv

Slowly. Very slowly. We probably average around 6 mph overall. If we have a good tailwind we'll go faster; headwinds we go slower.

Pedaleur

When I ride loaded, I think I go a lot faster than I probably do.

(Sorry.

Steve0000

10 years ago, about 26kph, now about 22-24.
With partner, about 18kph on flats, down to 13-14 overall on hilly days (around 8-10kph up a hill, depending on slope).

RepWI

Well said, I enjoyed your comments. And BTW, I am drinking a homebrew red ale. I just kegged an Octoberfest that I think will be great.

djb

over the years, and averaging flats and some hills, I've been pretty consistent at about 17kph, or about 10mph. Can be higher on only flat, and slow on really hilly stuff, but Im always abit surprised to see that number always seems to be teh average.
But hey, 5 hours riding time is about 80k, 6 hours about 100k.

Bekologist

how fast do I ride loaded?

For each beer past the first two, approximately a mile per hour slower until i reach wobbling speed towards the end of a 12 pack.


My rule of thumb is ten miles per hour. five hours for fifty miles and ten hours a hunerd. but i pack light and don't meander too much.

Yan 

Moving average under normal conditions is about 21km/h, or 13mph. This isn't really a determining factor for daily distance, as I typically ride until I reach a predetermined distance regardless of how long it takes.

mtnbud

Yep! A 8-12mph average by the end of the day. I figure 10mph for estimates of mileage and distance when projecting where I'll be and when I'll get there.

(I once hit 56mph fully loaded going down a 5 mile decline with a real nice tailwind and still ended up with an average speed of 10 for the day.)

dcrowell

I manage 8-10mph depending on terrain. Touring isn't about how fast is it?

Machka 

I ride slowly when I don't have any bags on my bicycle ... I ride very, very slowly when I have panniers on.

12-15 km/h is probably in the ballpark of my pace.

staehpj1

It varies widely depending on the road conditions, my physical condition at the time, and who I am riding with. On flat roads with no headwind and a group of three we sometimes managed 18-22 mph for an hour or two of pace line riding when we were on the Trans America. In the Sierras last year there were sections of steep climbing where I wasn't much faster than a walking pace. It is hard to pin it down to an average, but generally I am somewhere in between those extremes.

sehsuan

maybe i'm not carrying enough load? i'm probably 3/4 of fully loaded last weekend, however it was just a 2 day, 1 night camp kind of shakedown ride, to test my handling with the front panniers that i didn't have before. i think i can manage 24 to 26 kph on flats, using rotor q-rings and a 11-34 cassette, running 1.95" tubeless knobbies at 40 psi (although heat from the sun might have increased the pressure)... on downslopes, i can hit 31 kph, but by then the front fork shimmering just got REALLY scary!!!