Just in the past month, I have been averaging I ride alone most of the time, so I suspect that may be holding me back. My wife and I took up riding.
We started when I was lbs and we struggled to hit 10 miles and could barely get to 9 mph. A year later, I had dropped to and we were averaging 12 mph and riding 35 miles.
My wife has seen similar results. It is a positive impact on your mental state, keeps you healthy and ultimately leads to a better quality of life.
Started out kinda slow on the aluminum mountain bike. Recently recorded 35 mph in the Specialized I ride around on currently.
Only know this when looking up at auto speed sign by a Middle school. Quite surprised by this. Once you get up beyond 15 mph, wind resistance is a major factor, The power needed to go faster watts goes way up for each additional mph.
Big difference riding at a 45 degree angle vs low , in the drops of the handlebars. I average mph on my rides in the mountains by my property.
Jumping from 14mph to 20mph in a few months is probably not realistic, especially if you are only riding around 6 miles a day. Then again, everyone is different.
I m 37 years old female. I do alone… And enjoy to do riding, exploring new areas of my city. I have lost too much fat. My average speed 11 mph, I would like to get up to 15, perhaps I need a road bike? If anyone could give me feedback it help tremendously.
I have swabble. If you are new to cycling, I think a hybrid is a great bike on which to start. As you get stronger and more comfortable in the saddle, lengthen your rides for endurance. Hybrids with straight handlebars, make you sit upright, which means more wind resistance. So even a strong rider will probably top out at 15 to 17 on a hybrid.
Once you can do a 25 to 30 mile ride easily at a good pace, then consider upgrading to a road bike with drop handlebars, which will put you in a more aero position. See how dedicated you are going to be towards putting in the miles before you immediately jump to a fast road bike. Take your time, do it right. After a 30 year break from riding, I got a hybrid in time for my 70th.
I rode that for nearly a year and averaged about 10 mph. I replaced the hybrid with a road bike endurance in time for my 71st birthday. I celebrated the th ride on that doing 40 km in under 2 hours climbing feet in the process. But my average speed over the fides is between 11 and 12 mph. Hope this helps. Taking time off to raise kids and work, finally back in the saddle. My bike is almost as old as me — at 60 yo I still ride and avg of 17 to 24 mph depending if the teens have gotten to me or not!
I get to ride an avg of 25 to 50 miles per ride, 3 to 5 times a week Trying to loose that baby weight -LOL — I hope to get faster. Always have been competitive. We have mountain bikes, road bikes and hybrid bikes.
We average about 11, 13, 15 mph on the same roads. The gears make a huge difference, as well as the weight and drag. When we want distance, we ride the road bikes. Workout, hybrids. We did a 30 mile ride on the road bikes, averaging The calories burned estimate on Strava was just over on the hybrids and just under on the road bikes.
That holds true in almost everything we do. We had a gravel ride that we hit calories on, about 54 miles. Our mile road bike ride was The inch tires were swiped from a motorcycle, since no cycling rubber is rated for anything near these speeds. A steering stabilizer and a custom-tuned suspension fork borrowed from downhill racing dampen irregularities in the unpaved salt track.
At 35 pounds and more than 7 feet long, Mueller-Korenek's KHS bike has motorcycle tires and a compound reduction gear setup optimized for riding at triple-digit speeds. Just as important as the bike is the car. Mueller-Korenek will draft an horsepower Top Alcohol dragster—the same one Rompelberg used. It accelerates more smoothly than the supercharged Range Rover SVR she used in , but its aerodynamic fairing creates a low-pressure draft pocket just 46 inches wide, leaving Mueller-Korenek little lateral maneuvering room.
But this was different. That bond matters when a cyclist and driver are trying to go triple-digit speeds within a few feet of each other. The dance floor is the Bonneville Salt Flats, a 30,acre salt pan near the Utah-Nevada border, one of the few places in the world with the space and the flat, uniform surface needed for a speed record trial.
The Short Course track is 5 miles long. To start the run, Mueller-Korenek is attached to the dragster with a tether. To secure the record, Mueller-Korenek—now pedaling around rpm—will have to hold mph between mile markers 4 and 5, where the timing traps measure her average speed. Any object in motion creates turbulence. But a bluff body, like this fairing, creates a series of alternating vortices that swirl in its wake.
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