How long would it take someone to ride a bike 3 miles?

Question

If it was someone of average health, weight. a straight street, no hills. just approximately, how long would it take to ride about 3 miles?

Answer 1

An eye blink really.  I ride 8 miles and it takes just under a half an hour.  It will depend on route, conditions and your conditioning.

But for a person like you describe on that terrain I think you can realistically average 10-12 mph right away - without hardly breaking a sweat!  At that speed you might even get bored!

So less than 15 minutes I would say, heck maybe even 10 minutes tops.  It may actually be faster than driving or taking the bus!

Answer 2

I normally ride about 2x as fast as david c about 47 MPH on my MTB. So I'd do it in about 3:55.1

Now you probably can't do that so add on a couple minutes say 8 minutes total.

Answer 3

depends on how fast you ride or go if theres wind for ex I am healthy and go about 23.5mph every were i go so 3 miles would take me 8 mins someone who gos 10mph than 22mins

Answer 4

MR, check the calibration on your watch.  The correct answer is 12 minutes, 13.643 seconds.

Answer 5

well for me to bike to my friends house which is 2 miles on the dot it take 25 min but thats alot of up hills so im guessing straight at a steady pace 20-25

Answer 6

MR & Silver:

Hate to be the hall monitor but it is;

12 minutes, 13.643 seconds EXACTLY

Come on guys you know the rules, no miss calibrated 1 mississippi's.

Answer 7

It took my wife 8 years to go three miles on her bike ;-)

I can do it in about 9 minutes.

Answer 8

I can do better than approximate.

The number you seek is: 12 minutes, 13.655 seconds.

Of this I'm certain.

EDIT: silver... Watch? I was supposed to use a watch? I just counted... 1-1000, 2-1000, 3-1000...

Answer 9

Assume that the person would ride at about 12 to 15 mph, so a 3 mile ride would take about 15 minutes.

Answer 10

For me, it would take approximately 18 minutes, probably longer because I cannot make it that far yet. Based on my time today, My average miles per hour (mph) is approximately 9 (I went 1-1/2 miles which took about 10 minutes).  But that's because I only started riding again recently. I'm about 100lbs overweight and have not been on a bicycle for almost 10 - 12 years and have bad knees. Someone who is of average height, weight and health should be able to easily cut this time by probably 1/4 to 1/2 I would guess.