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Commuting 18 miles, Hybrid or roadie ?
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Posted 5 months ago #
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My commute is 20miles I have done this for over 10 years on various bikes, MTB, Hybrid and road, the road bike suffered in winter, but you may not want to ride in winter. The worse was when I rode into a 'puddle' roadside only to find it was a 2ft pothole, snapped my front wheel, broke my forks and set me into the road, nice!
MTB too heavy, hybrid lasted the longest until my wife ran over it in car! I now have a Genesis Croix de fer and its perfect, steel frame nice and compliant, disk brakes and large wheels cut my commute time by at least 5 minutes, only problem is its white and this time of year the roads make a mess of the bike quickly! Pays yer money and takes yer choice!Posted 5 months ago # -
Nothing to add other than I meant bar tape. I don't wear out rim tape.
Oh, and I still say a new set of wheels...
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i do 18miles myself with lots of uphill in about 45mins
Whats that smell?
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nope one far side side of bristol to the other have gps's the route and comes up as 18miles when riden on my scooter,i leave at 7 usualy get there at about 7.45/50 but im usualy jellied by the time im finished,unless the milage that the gps has shown is out then by all means im in the wrong,i have 3 routs 2 of take about the same time to work but the longer trip home takes about 1.15
gearing is 42-15 dont no what that works out in inches i just ride it
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That's 24mph. With lots of uphills?
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spose depends what ppl class as up hill
can i find out gradient climbed on google maps?
sorry for the thread hijack....Posted 5 months ago # -
Erm, I think your GPS might be a tad inaccurate mate.
24mph is decent (relatively flattish course) Time Trialling speed. If you can genuinely achieve that sort of speed on an undulating course in traffic with junctions/lights etc, then you should be racing professionally....
Posted 5 months ago # -
just checked it on google came up at just over 16 miles so dont no whats up with that will have another look on next trip (wont be till new year now :D) still recomend the ones i sugested iv herd nothing but good things about the boardmans tbh
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I am reasonably fast and have a fairly flat rural 16mile commute, there is a bit of urban at the ends as i have to negotiate two towns which does bring the speed down.
I assume it will take an hour. usually does, I have managed average of door to door of 20mph, Whilst doing that sort of speed day in and day out would for me not be possible, and i truly suspect very few riders could and in an urban environment i would be surprised if anyone could. The difference between riding everyday at 16-17mph and 20mph is huge.
Posted 5 months ago # -
not to worry mrmo, there's a profound odour all over this thread.
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god every day hell no lmao i get 2 riding commutes a week if im lucky indeed klunk the thread has none to the pits abit so back on topic for the op as weve already taken up a page of his thread.
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Its fine lads.. i bought a cheap roadie. Crack on with the debates.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Just no. We're still talking well over 20 on a SS with flat bars, through town. No chance.
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Call me a sceptic, but I'm with Njee on this, what with him knowing about riding proper fast and that.
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ok tis not a problem ither way i no my times ect dont really no what it works out to in mph as long as i get to work on time then happy days
Posted 5 months ago # -
But you don't, you've said you leave about 7, and there about 7:45.
If you are actually doing that twice a week you need to start racing immediately, as I've ridden with pro road riders slower than that.
What gear do you run?
Posted 5 months ago # -
I think you need to show all us doubters a gps file of your ride.
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42-15 tis nice and spinny on that flats/downs and not to bad on the ups i prob couldent hold it for more than a hour tho as im almost legless by the time i get to work
edit- will get one sorted when i get back to work as mentioned before google and my gps seems to be out between eachother but will see what the outcome is distance wise when i record but i no im on 45-50mins max point to point
Posted 5 months ago # -
GPS set to kilometres perhaps?
Bristol is hilly!
Posted 5 months ago # -
Bloody hell. Is there going to be a lynching?!
Posted 5 months ago # -
Hopefully
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I think you need to show all us doubters a gps file of your ride.
yeah, like they can't be faked
Posted 5 months ago # -
Especially with a mondeo
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commute times are like bike weights innit?
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just spoke to the person whos gps it is and yes is set in kil not miles good call wallop wouldent have thought about it otherwise works about at 11ish miles
was wondering why it was such a big deal :lol:.
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and you didn't notice ? 7 miles is the next town
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was in my bag but switched on just to record distance i really dident take much notice its not like im in full on training or anything
sorry njee20 no lynching for u today
Posted 5 months ago # -
Just did a 1 hour road ride on the 29er.
16.05 miles. Hilly and windy today but happy with that.
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