Confused about speed?

leshere
leshere Posts: 38
edited April 2012 in Road beginners
I have been strolling around these forums and gained lots of useful advice. However I read that this bit of kit gives a 3mph advantage, another bit 2.5 and so on. Totting this up I should be able to sit on my bike equipped with all these speed enhancing bits and bobs not pedal and still make 20mph plus :D
Wheels 3mph
Tyres 2.5mph
Chain 2 mph
Gears and spiky bits 1.5mph
Smooth clothes carbon forks, carbon seat post and carbon bottom 4 mph
CLipless pedals 5 mph
I think I am doing 18 mph already and I am sure there are a few more any ideas?? :)

Comments

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,185
    Don't know where you've seen those numbers, I've never seen them.
  • kamil1891
    kamil1891 Posts: 658
    leshere I don't believe you are real!! :D
  • BillyMansell
    BillyMansell Posts: 817
    kamil1891 wrote:
    leshere I don't believe you are real!! :D
    Of course they not real. They've got a carbon bottom although don't know what the rest of him/her/it is made of.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    It's like those people that claim such and such a forgotten hero shortened the war by 18 months. When you add the combined efforts of all these heros together, you discover that World War 2 must have started in 1640.......
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I think you want to look at is as "seconds saved per 10 miles, when you are averaging around 20 mph for said 10 miles"

    Aero wheels, TT bars, clip in pedals, overshoes (seriously!)

    Apparently, per pound spend and time saved, overshoes were the best vfm
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    ...and if you sit on your fantasy bike on a dual carriageway I read that would add 4.2mph :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • styxd
    styxd Posts: 3,234
    Les, you're absolutely correct.

    When I first started road riding, I was dead slow. Now after years on the bike, with new wheels, tyres, pedasl & shoes and lycra, Im far faster than when I first started.
  • McBoom
    McBoom Posts: 78
    Some bizarre numbers there!

    Perhaps you're thinking about something like this: http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2010/04/ ... ng+Tips%29

    Bear in mind these savings are for someone doing 40km in 48mins (50kph/32.3mph). So a very high level. Such savings would decrease exponentially the slower you are.
  • singleton
    singleton Posts: 2,523
    Do I get even more speed if I fit for example 3 or even 4 wheels?

    Those 3 and 4 wheel recumbents don't look that fast....
  • leshere
    leshere Posts: 38
    Singleton wrote:
    Do I get even more speed if I fit for example 3 or even 4 wheels?

    Those 3 and 4 wheel recumbents don't look that fast....
    I am not sure but I am on a diet and have lost nearly a kilo so I thought I would eat the diet x3 next week and lose 3 kilo
    :mrgreen:
  • sancho1983
    sancho1983 Posts: 76
    Singleton wrote:
    Do I get even more speed if I fit for example 3 or even 4 wheels?

    Those 3 and 4 wheel recumbents don't look that fast....

    I put a motor on mine, since then I've averaged 50-60 MPH...

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