Best commute time
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Re: Best commute time
Postby stated » Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:28 pm
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Re: Best commute time
Postby martinjs » Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:28 pm
What! like you.stated wrote:Sorry mate you need to do it on a 20y/o rigid mtb and safety boots.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby martinjs » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:55 pm
"No probs Bob"stated wrote:Sorry, it was a reply for munga.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby Ozchuck » Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:19 pm
How do you keep your cadences so high with the normal suburban hills?
Mine always drops down heaps, as the roadie has 42x22 as the lowest gear, which really slows me down.
Is it easy to find a 7 speed casette with a bigger gear?
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Re: Best commute time
Postby Runjikol » Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:00 pm
Avg. speed 27.7kph.
Avg. cadence about 90rpm. (just guessing, I don't record that on each ride, just pay attention so it doesn't slip)
It ain't road-racer speed but I'm happy with it.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby martinjs » Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:02 pm
Sounds good to meRunjikol wrote:My best time is 1h13m05s from Croydon South to Hallam: 33.6kms.
Avg. speed 27.7kph.
Avg. cadence about 90rpm. (just guessing, I don't record that on each ride, just pay attention so it doesn't slip)
It ain't road-racer speed but I'm happy with it.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby spunkyryan » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:56 pm
Average speed was 32.3km/h and top speed 46.5km/h.
Over a similar distance my best commute time was around the 21 minute mark. I did recently swap from Specialized All Condition to Continental GP4000s tyres and they seem to have made an substantial improvement.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby Piotrs » Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:09 pm
Distance : 13.3km
Average Speed: 24.8km/h
Cadence: ????
Its improving slowly and steadily.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby martinjs » Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:37 pm
Distance: 9.38 k's
Time: 19 minutes 1 second
Average Speed: 30.42 kph
Now if I can only do that over a longer distance.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby Kev365428 » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:39 am
Family committments (re: picking up the princess from school) has meant that I rarely get to do a full commute of 85km return nowdays.
Not wanting to drive in each and every day, I've worked out that I can drive halfway, park the car, and ride the remaining 23km to work along the same route I used to take. This means I can get back to the car in time to drive to the school to pick her up.
Last week I decided to take the MTB so I didn't have to clean the roadie again after riding in the rain. Well, I was totally stuffed by the time I got back to the car in the afternoon. How hard is a MTB to ride on the road after riding a roadie? It also took me 9 minutes longer than my average on the roadie.
Decided to stick with it this week, and although the times were still high, they kept coming down each day. On Thursday morning I rode in with a time of 51:39, which is only 1:39 of the roadie average (best time on the roadie was about 45:30 I think).
I kinda hoping that this is a good training regime and it will help my racing.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby Pax » Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:41 pm
I had the Bob because I was returning to Brisbane from Sydney. Flew into Bris, taxi to the office then onto the trusty commuter (hard tail MTB) plus Bob Trailer for the overnight bag / brief case.
SO the Bob plus my bags =18kg
Averaged 29.15kph for the 25k commute home (the commute is actually about 26k, but I warm down for the final k so don't count that for best-speed calculations)
Pretty bloody happy with that
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Re: Best commute time
Postby Kev365428 » Wed May 05, 2010 8:04 pm
As far as helping my racing, I think it has.
Now to keep it going through the winter.
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Re: Best commute time
Postby hannos » Wed May 05, 2010 9:34 pm
Dist = 36.6km
Ave spd = 30.1km/h
usually I tend to do about 29km/h.
homeward I average 26-27km/h
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Re: Best commute time
Postby Pax » Thu May 06, 2010 10:42 pm
However having recently joined the Duttons club and done some rides with them it has encouraged me to get the pace back .
Seems to be working. Averaged 33.67kph for the 25k commute home tonight on the trusty hardtail.
In the early 2000s I had a fastest commute of 36kph for a similar distance & route (still the same bike) and used to pretty regularly hit the 33kph average. Today I am older and there are about 4 or 5 extra sets of Stop lights on the commute, so I'm pretty happy with tonights pace .
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