{"id":405,"date":"2010-08-10T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2010-08-10T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:52:09","slug":"bike-computer-stats-average-speed-mileage-what-is-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Bike Computer Stats – Average Speed, Mileage, What is Yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished a nice ride tonight (17 miles) and I was thinking about what a geek I am when it comes to certain stats and things like my bike computer stats <\/strong>(I actually am a programmer by day so I do pretty much quality as a geek).<\/p>\n

Anyway, I always reset my bike odometer at the beginning of each riding season and I keep track of the total miles that I ride, my average speeds, fastest speeds, etc.<\/p>\n

I usually do about 1,000 to 2,000 miles per riding season<\/strong> (not bad for an old\u00a0guy :-)). Most of my rides are\u00a0usually from 11 to 20 miles although I do take some longer trips occasionally.<\/p>\n

I am not a racer or competitive rider so on my normal touring style rides I usually average about 12 mph<\/strong> or so although recently I have been pushing myself a little more to get more exercise and I am a little faster now that we are well into riding season. When I push myself a little, like tonight, I just did 17 miles at an average speed of 14.1 mph<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This isn’t going to break any speed records or anything (unless there are some geriatric records that I could crack! \ud83d\ude42 ) but it’s fun to go fast and it’s really great exercise (which also means it’s a lot of work too).<\/p>\n

I just did a search for the average tour de france speed and the first site that came up said: “Fastest average tour: just less than 25 mph” so I think that my 14mph is at least respectable.<\/p>\n

I know some of the new bike computers<\/a> and bike GPS units<\/a>have download options but my bike computer is not that fancy so I have to update my spreadsheet with my stats after each ride.<\/p>\n

Also, speaking of bike computer stats, I just cracked the 1,000 mile mark on my bike computer tonight. I now have 1,012 miles for this season (so far)!<\/p>\n

Although this is a bike blog and not really a forum, I do have this setup for easy comments and I am always curious what kinds of bike computer stats other people have based on their riding styles.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if anyone out there would like to post their stats, please feel free to drop a line<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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