Average speed of a cyclist?

Question

Average speed of a cyclist?

Answer 1

Depends.

A recreational cyclist - maybe 12-15 mph

A Tour de France cyclist going down a mountain 40-50 mph

Answer 2

60 km/h if you can.

Answer 3

I used to ride my bike back and forth to work, I used to ride at about 15 MPH. That wasn't my fastest possible speed, but a steady constant.

Answer 4

I'd say about fifteen miles an hour.

Answer 5

My average, on my commute to work (20 mile round trip) on a road bike - 19-20MPH. I'm not brilliantly fit...I need to loose a stone actually...

Answer 6

I was 58 yrs old when I bought my first good road bike. I've been doing about 20-24 miles per day.  I have a computer on board and wanted to see just how fast I could go on a newly paved flat stretch of road near home. I thought I was in good enough shape to get 30-35 mph out of a sprint as I was cyclling at about 14-15 mph on my daily run.  I hit 20 mph on every try.  My wife laughs at the fact that the pro-cyclist are going faster on a climb than I can on a flat road.

Answer 7

it all depends on the kind of bike, like all of the other answers, the one that is not mentioned is a mountain bike. Its top speed down a hill is about 20-25. Up a hill, it can go as slow as 1/2 miles per hour. But your average bicyclist is about 10-15 mph.

Answer 8

Track cyclists in sprint events are hitting just under 50mph at some points but are averaging about 40- professional road cyclists just under 30 mph on average and your average club cyclist between 15- 20 mph.