What is your Max & Average Commuting Speed

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    What is this "traffic lights" thingy you talk of :lol:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    biondino wrote:
    My proper average is maybe 13mph, but then I do have (I think) 22 sets of traffic lights in my 7 mile journey, as well as London traffic. I agree with Jamey that it's a more realistic measure when talking about commuting - after all, the key thing is getting to work/getting home in a reliable time!

    Yeah, a valid point, my computer measures average moving time, not including stops. If it did include stops I'd be even slower... :D
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    My proper average is maybe 13mph, but then I do have (I think) 22 sets of traffic lights in my 7 mile journey, as well as London traffic. I agree with Jamey that it's a more realistic measure when talking about commuting - after all, the key thing is getting to work/getting home in a reliable time!

    Yeah, a valid point, my computer measures average moving time, not including stops. If it did include stops I'd be even slower... :D

    You want to move up here then to Sticksville. I was counting cars last night on the way home; after 7 miles I'd seen three, two approaching and one that passed me. And a nice old lady with a dog who looked for all the world as if she might engage me in conversation when I said 'evening' as I rolled past. Traffic lights eh? What a bind they must be... :)

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  • shoulder_of_orion
    shoulder_of_orion Posts: 529
    my computer is the cat-eye cc-mc100w, which according to their website is the most popular wireless bike computer in the world. also it has an auto setting and a start/stop setting. which is great and means I can work out my proper average.

    now I've just got to figure out their instructions... :?

    (link is a PDF)
    http://www.cateye.com/sites/cateye/uplo ... Wv2ENG.pdf
  • shoulder_of_orion
    shoulder_of_orion Posts: 529
    right I think I've cracked it now, thanks to Jamey & nation....

    god, I'm getting a bit geeky about this....

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