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I was gonna say that seems quite low. 15 might be more reasonable maybe?
No it isn't. The average speed of a pedal cyclist is 16 km/h.
That is your maximum speed.
I think he meant 15 miles per hour which roughly translates to 25 km/h
Max speed for the average (50th percentile) for the commuting population, sure, I believe that. Did you mean to actually question whether or not the other user can actually ride a bike above 25kmh maximum? I would imagine the 70th percentile of regular commuting cyclists could easily exceed that on flat ground if they needed to.
My average speed on commuting rides is around 30kmh, ~18mph. My maximum speed on rides I regularly do for commuting is ~55kmh. Downhill, of course. Not all of us live in flatland.
For whatever it’s worth, despite regularly riding at that speed I am 1000% in support of speed limits on dedicated mixed use lanes. 25kmh is a reasonable speed limit to put on bike lanes IMHO. I’m riding along a rural road when commuting because I have no other choice. If I was in a mixed use path I wouldn’t feel comfortable at all going that speed.
My average speed is somewhere around 12km/h sure, but that's because half of the time I spend on traffic lights, limiting top speed to 20 would just make average closer to 10km/h
Also, I don't think limit lower than 25km/h makes much sense, but that's personal opinion that is not backed by statistics. And yeah, I drive a muscle powered bike, not an e-bike, maybe I would've thought differently in that case
Lmao this is hilarious.
I also do about 24 as my "natural" speed. 28 is about the most I can sustain for a while, about 32 going full tilt for a couple of minutes. On the bike paths here I would say the average speed is closer to 20 than 16, as measured when I'm stuck behind bike traffic.
Ahahaha you must be so out of shape. I commute maybe once every two weeks and hit 30kph average
I mean I've actually measured myself. My standard pace is about 14. But I'm fairly athletic so that may be above the typical cyclist.