"atfsgeoff" (atfsgeoff)
09/06/2018 at 14:17 • Filed to: None
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"atfsgeoff" (atfsgeoff)
09/06/2018 at 14:17 • Filed to: None | 6
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These
past 6 months, a friend and I have been riding our bicycles pretty regularly, putting a 15
0-200 miles
every month on them. We’ve been riding up to another friend’s house across the city on Wednesdays, which has the added benefit of not expending gas in my car for a relatively short trip (~7.5 miles each way, 15 round trip).
Yesterday we got
to his house in 31 minutes, and got back home in 35, averaging about 14 miles per hour. I realized that this is actually faster than driving my car up there during the day, because of traffic. Filtering
past 1/4 mile of gridlock
on a bike is downright cathartic.
benjrblant
> atfsgeoff
09/06/2018 at 14:40 |
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My bike commute is 14.2 miles each way and an average of 17-18mph means it usually takes me 45-50 minutes or so. This plus some fun weekend rides totaled 750 miles for August.
Driving is 11.5 miles and in morning traffic usually takes 30 minutes (22mph avg), evening traffic is usually 45 minutes (15mph avg.)
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> atfsgeoff
09/06/2018 at 14:43 |
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Lynskey, I haven’t seen one of those around for a while, it titanium? I used to commute by bike is Sacramento CA about 2-3 days a week, it was 45 min each way and was less stressful than driving in gridlock traffic.
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atfsgeoff
> benjrblant
09/06/2018 at 14:46 |
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17-18mph is really cooking! I can’t sustain that speed at all around here, too many grades
. On a flat, paved rail trail I can maintain 17 for maybe a half hour before petering out.
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atfsgeoff
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
09/06/2018 at 14:56 |
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Yeah, 2018 Cooper CX. T itanium frame with a carbon fiber fork, 700c wheels with 40mm wide tires. Kind of a mix between a gravel and touring bike , with all requisite braze-ons for racks and other accessories . Ordered in late January to spec, it arrived in early March. I got the whole bike fabricated and built up with components by Lynskey for a really good price, under $2200 out the door . I’ve put about a thousand miles on it over the course of 6 months, in addition to a couple hundred on my older bike (which I’ve put locking skewers on, to serve as my ‘beater’ bike to lock up outside when doing errands in town) :
That’s an ‘07 Cannondale F4, that I bought new back in ‘07. I only have about 3k miles on it, but it’s served me very well over the past decade. It’s a hard tail mountain bike, but a year into owning it, I realized I do a lot more paved road riding than real mountain bike trails, so I swapped out the factory knobbies for slicks and it’s been a great city bike since then.
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benjrblant
> atfsgeoff
09/06/2018 at 14:59 |
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Paved dedicated bike lanes mean few distractions, no traffic, and best of all hardly any stops. Holding that pace in traffic would be a challenge.