#6639071 - 10/10/12 12:28 PM
new personal best on my bike commute
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notes: this is a 36# freeride mtbike (nomad) on knobbies, and it doesn't have the 'big ring', swapped for a bashguard. So it's not terribly fast, I'm spinning pretty cray to hit about 18 mph.
In this area you will hate on me for commuting on my mtbike instead of a roadie 
Not bad for a commute full of lights, traffic, etc all. Plus over the same route as the light rail I beat the train by 10 minutes, holy hell! If you look at the second graph I'm slowing/sitting for about 9 different lights over this route
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#6639134 - 10/10/12 12:44 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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I started feeling gassed around 30m also, I remember feeling it. I did sorta skip lunch because of meetings, probably had something to do with it
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#6639434 - 10/10/12 02:24 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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Fastfeduous
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I ride a mountain bike and average 15 mph on trail rides (lots of steep up and downs). 18mph on relatively flat rides. I should buy a damn road bike though.
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#6640376 - 10/10/12 10:28 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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#6641188 - 10/11/12 11:20 AM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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Ares
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I ride a mountain bike and average 15 mph on trail rides (lots of steep up and downs). 18mph on relatively flat rides. I should buy a damn road bike though.
if the goal is exercise... I dont see why you would want to make it easier. hell, hang some weights on the bike, up the resistance.
Unless its a race, or your really doing it for transportation ONLY, what benefit is a road bike?
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#6642715 - 10/11/12 11:44 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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g@mby
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Unless its a race, or your really doing it for transportation ONLY, what benefit is a road bike?
Going faster is always more fun.
Commuting on a freeride bike is a little nuts, though. Props for commuting on any bike though.
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#6644049 - 10/12/12 05:49 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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I think there's more than one way to define 'fun', to me 'fun' is being able to bomb down some stairs, bunny hop some curbs to take the sidewalk over a particularly sketchy traffic environment, also there's 2 trails I can jump on for about 1-2 miles ea (coyote creek and guadalupe creek trails), plus I dont have to worry about blowouts, gravel, instability or any of that crap and I plain prefer riding a mtbike, has a much more comfortable stance
pretty much the least fun thing to me is riding a roadie with bike shorts clipped in while maintaining a tuck.
I understand probably 95% of bike commuters do it on a roadie or a hybrid though, but I don't think it's for 'fun', rather speed is the main variable. No argument from me on that one.
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#6644283 - 10/12/12 08:34 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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Fastfeduous
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I'd just increased my distance and work just as hard. I just hate pushing it at 100% and getting passed.
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#6648183 - 10/15/12 12:31 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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FASTFED!
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no, it just leverages your built in GPS
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#6649781 - 10/15/12 11:48 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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g@mby
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I think there's more than one way to define 'fun', to me 'fun' is being able to bomb down some stairs, bunny hop some curbs to take the sidewalk over a particularly sketchy traffic environment, also there's 2 trails I can jump on for about 1-2 miles ea (coyote creek and guadalupe creek trails), plus I dont have to worry about blowouts, gravel, instability or any of that crap and I plain prefer riding a mtbike, has a much more comfortable stance
pretty much the least fun thing to me is riding a roadie with bike shorts clipped in while maintaining a tuck.
I understand probably 95% of bike commuters do it on a roadie or a hybrid though, but I don't think it's for 'fun', rather speed is the main variable. No argument from me on that one.
No hate here. If I commuted, I'd be on my singlespeed, which can still hop curbs (700x35 tires) and I know I wouldn't be hucking down any stairsets on the way to work.
You'd be STUNNED at how fast you'd go on a road bike after getting conditioned to that freeride bike, though. 
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#6711991 - 11/13/12 11:56 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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g@mby
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That's a pretty massive jump in average speed. That's a respectable average speed for a road bike, for crying out loud.
Props for sticking with it.
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#6745783 - 12/01/12 12:10 PM
Re: new personal best on my bike commute
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g@mby
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Maybe you should think about a cyclocross bike instead of a road bike. They can take a lot more of a beating. It would be a VERY fast commuter that could still hop curbs with ease.
You would then pwn Oscar. STRAAAAAAAAVAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!11!!! 
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, I don't think I've commuted by car more than once or twice in 2 months
