Comment 70192

By anon (anonymous) | Posted September 30, 2011 at 11:53:26 in reply to Comment 70189

Naw. Your numbers are way off. My daily commute is a 7km ride each way, and it takes 20 minutes, tops, including traffic lights and all that congestion. I cruise around the normal cycling sweet spot pace of 30-32km/h.

If I look at my 3- or 4000 GPS-logged annual urban kms, over all the various routes and conditions, 3 minutes per km is my computed overall typical ride pace in the city. Most modern bikes cruise pretty easily up in the high 20km/h range before air and rolling resistance ramps up (usually starting around 32 km/h windspeed) -- in typical weather and terrain.

For the particular route in question, you should also note that there's a pretty major downhill as well, which shaves off probably 15% off the expected time.

If I start out near King/James rolling west, I'll heat the cars and buses by two blocks to the 403.

You can't top a bike in the city.

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