What's your average speed???

adb1006

OK people, so what's your usual average speed over your normal offroad ride :?:

I'm not looking for "my best is 52mph" etc etc - just what you usually achieve on an average ride offroad. Me and my mates go out every weekend and usually hit an average of 10mph overall. That's taking it fairly leisurely (as there are a couple of new riders in the group), not pushing ourselves like we're in a race. We generally do just over 30 miles (99% offroad) over 3 hours - which is a nice ride - you know you've done it but you're not incapable of moving afterwards either.

Just wondered what everyone else did on average.

.blitz

I generally do 25-30 miles in about 3 hours so 10mph is pretty good by my standards. My best was a 12-mile ride in less than an hour on my Proflex.

tptvmbircn

about 13mph lately...

nicklouse

it depends on the speed of the Up lift.

zero303

Depends entirely where you ride...

9mph average around Cwmcarn is pretty fierce yet doesn't sound like it.

On my local loop 12 or 13mph is more likely...

adb1006

zero303 wrote:

Depends entirely where you ride...

True - weather conditions too - sloppy mud and a head wind - lovely!

ThanksBye

According to my garmin on my local loop 19kph

adb1006

tomatoevousparlour wrote:

According to my garmin on my local loop 19kph

What's that in English?

ThanksBye

11.8 (well thats what googles says)

Bikerbaboon

Hard to say on my local loop riding for 1.5 hours i can do 15 MPH
up in the dales its about 10 mph
and round dalby its about 12-13 mph

Off road its all down to condtions of the trail and the high you gain that sets the speed.

Belv

About an hour, twice a week.
More numbers than that and i start to get obsessed by them and lose some of the pleasure of riding.

sebastiandangerfield

Mine's 9 but measured on a garmin.

I've always wondered, would it detect the small twists and turns of singletrack if it's swichbacks every few meters? For example you go 400 meters but with the berms and switchbacks etc its a little further, the gps would have to be massivly accurate to not just do a fairly staright line to work out the speed.

I run too and there was a similar analogy for running on a cruise ship while its moving.

I'm just hoping I could add a few MPH if I had a sensor computor! :oops:

Mr Wu

I go that slow its quicker to walk!

cat_with_no_tail

Again, depends on where I am riding. For my evening loop, It's a nice 15miles, almost all offroad nothing too challenging, average 10mph, or just over if it's nice and dry.
For my fave weekend run (the one in my sig), it's more like an average of 8mph over about 40miles. This however, does not take into account the time spent with the front wheel stopped, resting, opening gates, chatting to other riders I come across, or on the deck having fallen off (which happens lots).

Chaz.Harding

There's so many factors to work this one out...

Main one (for me, at least!!) is how many times I have to scrape myself off trees and pick myself off the floor. Again....

Bungalow Bill

I just checked the Computer and it says average speed of 12.56MPH

projectsome

I probably average 5mph if I'm lucky :shock:

stevieboy

12 inches




Locally 15mph - Usually 20-21 miles of singletrack/fireroad (50/50) with around 1400ft climbing

In the peaks 8-9mph over 20 miles with 5000ft ish climbing

On our 6 mile off-road time trial course it's 16mph ave

So it's horses for courses really, I do ride like a loon though bouncing off my near max heart rate all the time. Typically I average 170-172 bpm out of a possible 189 bpm.

stumpyjon

sebastiandangerfield wrote:

Mine's 9 but measured on a garmin.

I've always wondered, would it detect the small twists and turns of singletrack if it's swichbacks every few meters? For example you go 400 meters but with the berms and switchbacks etc its a little further, the gps would have to be massivly accurate to not just do a fairly staright line to work out the speed.

I run too and there was a similar analogy for running on a cruise ship while its moving.

I'm just hoping I could add a few MPH if I had a sensor computor! :oops:

It should pick that up. My Garmin is accurate enough to show which side of the road I cycle on> Biggest issue with a GPS though is that it only measures horizontal distance, doesn't take into account vertical distance travelled. My bike computer reading distance from wheel turns always reads higher than the Garmin.

Oh average speed is around 9 mph but it is very dependant on location, conditions etc. etc.

sebastiandangerfield

With ya, so I dont get an extra few MPH? :?

I've thought about the verticle distance thing too, came to the conclusion it wasn't that large a figure. I forget the exact calculation for it but it was only around 2 metres over a 500 metre 1 in1 climb.

Sleepycol

12-13 mph generally around Noth Notts so not too hilly. However, just started riding with a super fit mate and recently covered 32 miles at an average of 17 mph. I was totalled but my mate was ready for the same again, the show off.

plasma_man

My average is about 18kph which is about 12mph in old money. Average about 1.5 hrs per run on dry forest tracks.

I can look at all my stats on motionbased.

Birrfeld Mountain Biking iainwatson May 21, 2009 Lenzburg, Kanton Aar...

Dur 1:25:18 hrs

Dist 27.58 km

Average 19.4kmph

Moving pace 03:05 (average mins per km)

Elevation gain 538 m

Temperature (°C) 28.9°C avg. 27°C high
Wind Speed ( kph) W 6.0 avg. W 11.8 max.

seataltea

Last 150 miles 10.5mph from Nokia Sports Tracker, oh those Pennine hills.

Raymondavalon

According to my Garmin, my moving average is about 10.5mph on forest tracks
In places like Swinley it's a lot less, 6 - 8mph due to the tight sections and uphill pedaling (and pushing)

spongtastic

probably about 15mph. Did 6 miles yesterday lunch time in 30 minutes, but didn't really know where I was going and kept missing markers.

chorscroft

Usually about 17mph on the road and about 12/13mph on trails, offroad etc.

EFMAX

I seem to average 10-12mph and that's on a single speed where I spin out at 16-18mph... but I am so looking forward to getting some gears on my bike because then I can pace myself a lot better and I hope the strength gained from single speeding will translate into higher and more sustainable mph.. we will see..

Father Faff

I can't believe people do 15mph on average off -road, that's about my usual average on a road bike and I'm not too unfit - but it is the Yorkshire Dales where there is a lot of climbing. I find that off-road I average about 8mph on a normal off-road ride. And the Garmin never lies!

stevieboy

Here's some of my polar data, 4 different rides - An offroad time trial, singletrack training ride, peaks ride and a road ride. Terrain varies average speed a lot as you can see.

Time Trial



Singletrack Training



Peaks



Road (on mountain bike with knobbly tyres)

phz

fairly flat round these parts (to understate the fact quite a lot ! ) and out on a mixed surface route (50/50 tarmc and dirt) with my wife (whos only been on MTBs for a couple of months) we average around 11/12mph

i used to do a similarly flat and similarly mixed surface route of about 18 miles in an hour or so

slainte :? rob

easyrider67

I have just been out for an hour and averaged 13.5 mph along a reasonably flat section of the trans pennine trail. I was pushing myself on my hybrid bike so I am pretty happy with this being 42 and 14st 7lb.