hmmm its would be pretty tough to average 11.9 mph moving speed for your average weekend warrior
id consider myself above average fitness wise – but no way on this planet id get near 11.9 average speed on the beast – the climbs are tough, and although the descents are fast some are techy’ish and require a bit of thought, rather than just ploughing through (not all but some)
if you rode it alot and it was your local im sure you could knock more time of it every ride, but as a ‘weekend warrior’ whose probably not ridden it much if at all(?) then i genuinely think unless your super fit you’d struggle to get anywhere near that time/speed on average
i did it in 2 hr 44 mins moving time with an average moving speed of 8.0 mph and its got 3700feet of climb in total, so its not flat (we did stop once for some flapjacks circa 5 mins or so)
we arent slouches and conditions were ok….we were going llandegla straight after so didnt push as hard as im sure as we could have done, but again we still werent slow in my mind
you’d have to be fairly fairly fit to get sub 2 hours, and if your only a weekend warrior i think most would struggle sub 3hr’s be honest
i reckon i could if i tried i could up it by a bit of time i guess, it was a day out planned with mate (whos no slouch either) but we both said we could knock 15 mins off easily if we really went for it taking it to about 2hr 30mins ~
again we were’nt racing we had a day planned out and it was a great day, we knew full well we were going llandegla straight after so obviously that played on our minds about how much we went for it at CYB