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Old 07-13-2004, 07:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Any cyclist here?

If so, what is your average ride (in mileage), average speed (in MPH), Max Speed, and cadence?

Who is watching the tour this year? I can't wait for Friday.
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Old 07-13-2004, 11:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Location: NZ
i tend to do about 2 or 3 hour rides normally, I'd guess something around 20 miles avg ... avg speed i've no idea ... varies from about 2mph up hills (it's one bitch of a hill) to about 40mph down ... maximum speed i know i ever hit is 45mph and i don't know what a cadence is

i might watch a bit of the tour but i don't find it as exciting as cycling myself ... i prefer off-road though, the road is just to get me from one bit of off-road to the next
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Old 07-15-2004, 07:57 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I used to be into mountain biking pretty seriously. I used to average around 26km/hour when considering the terrain was pretty good. As for max speed I could never break 75km/hour. Its not as fast as the racer cyclists but I never knew any mountain bikers who could break that speed. Our rides usually ranged from 30km to 45km. It is really spiritual when your riding your bike through the Blue Mountains at dawn and you look out over the mountains and see nothing but undisturbed nature. I think everyone should experience it even if only once.
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Old 07-17-2004, 07:05 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Holy ****. 26 km/h off road? I'm hoping this isn't technical riding

As for my riding... I try to do about 200-250km/week, about 3/4 of that is road riding, the rest on dirt. My usual average speed is somewhere in the ball park of 30km/h or so for the road stuff, all over the board for offroad, depending on the trail.

Any of you guys race? I'm doing a 24h of adrenaline relay a bit later this summer, my first real mt bike race, any advice for race day preperations and stuff would be greatly appreciated.

My fastest speed ever? Just north of 90km/h. Going down a 23% grade of a hill in my hometown (White Rock, BC) That was scary.
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Old 07-19-2004, 09:48 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Road? I tend to ride anywhere from 30 to 50 miles, average pace around 17.5 if Im riding solo, 19-20 if riding in a group. Typically I ride 3 times a week, sometimes four. Max speed I have ever gone was 36.6. I need to find a longer hill and break 40. I dont know my exact cadence, but it is somewhere between the whirlwind Lance Armstrong style and the diesel engine Jan Ullrich style. Probably around 90RPM.

I used to do a bunch of mountain biking, but I havent been on the mountain bike in forever, not since I have been in good shape.
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Old 07-20-2004, 03:32 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Location: San Francisco
My long workouts are usually 3 to 4 hours long and very hilly. Anyone else in NoCal? Alpine/Mt. Tam is my absolute favorite ride, especially the 7 sisters up top on Ridgecrest. Just beautiful.

My most common workout is a simple flat out and back of about 20 miles. Usually it takes about an hour. Depending on the type of week I may throw some intervals or pickups in there.

For strength riding I will do hill repeats. The hill I choose (Marin Headlands) takes about 10 minutes keeping my HR at 170. I continue doing laps up the hill until i reach a positive split (last lap takes long with the same effort as the preivious. The goal is to negative split). Then the workout is over and its an easy spin home. I also intend to add som Hill work using "standing" drills. Basically ride out of the saddle all the way up. Rinse & Repeat until positive split again.

Since I do Tri's I need to mix in a good deal of running and swimming as well.
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Old 07-20-2004, 05:11 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Got a new max today--39.4. I need to find a bigger hill. Maybe Ill try to top it on my next group ride in the country. This weekend maybe?

Nazgul, I wish I had hills like that around here. Its certainly quite hilly, but they are all short little things that you can power up. I think the longest hill Ive ridden around here takes about four minutes, and that one is pretty shallow--I can keep 16mph up it without too much trouble.
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Old 07-21-2004, 09:31 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Location: San Francisco
I recently did the Aids ride from SF to LA. While I wasn't using a bike computer the guys I ended up riding with were. When we were decending the pass from the Central to Southern California down Rt. 1 we hit a max of 47 mph. That was a hair raising decent to say the least.

Anyone see Lance decimate the field today?
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Old 07-26-2004, 04:56 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Location: upstate NY
hill climber here

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Got a new max today--39.4. I need to find a bigger hill. Maybe Ill try to top it on my next group ride in the country. This weekend maybe?

Nazgul, I wish I had hills like that around here. Its certainly quite hilly, but they are all short little things that you can power up. I think the longest hill Ive ridden around here takes about four minutes, and that one is pretty shallow--I can keep 16mph up it without too much trouble.
Sailor, consider a cycling trip to upstate NY (the Cooperstown area specifically). I live on top of an a verage hill here and routinely hit 45 mph going down it. And yes, every ride ends with me climbing back up that hill to get home. I'm in love with my front triple.

I generally do 80-100 miles a week. I'm pretty darn slow, but i just keep telling myself it's all the climbing I do. The weather up here is usually dicey for riding in April and anytime after Halloween, so I use the mountain bike to extend my riding season during those times.
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Old 07-27-2004, 12:47 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Location: NZ
i remember some dude who was into his mountain biking telling me that there's a 600 mile long downhill run in Tibet ... man how cool would that be?

we've only got small hills round here but some are quite sudden and it's easy to hit 40mph without trying
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Old 07-27-2004, 12:35 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
If I could find some cycling buddies around here, Id take off to the Blue Ridge and find me some real hills. Like I said, there are lots of hills around here--almost everything is a hill of some sort--but they are very short things. Little stingers. Most you can just power up. Some are little stingers, enough to get you burning before they stop. Theres only one hill around here that consistently kicks my ass--its very steep for about 250 meters, which makes you hurt, and then keeps climbing at a shallower grade for about a mile. It hurts, a lot. Never ridden down it though, and because its so shallow for so long, I doubt it would do much.

There are some bigger hills, I just havent ridden them. Most of them involve 4-6 lanes of serious traffic

I put in a new flat record the other day--36.7. Out in the country, some guys just took off, and I jumped on their wheel. We were *hauling* for about 500 meters before we hit a hill and then stopped to wait for the rest of the group.
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