Re: Helmet efficacy test

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Tue Mar 25 10:36:01 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

 
First, I don't know that's true. Based on your claims here, I think my
typical riding speed is faster than yours. I'm sure I couldn't keep up
with Zen or Mark, but I suspect most of us old guys here would ride at
similar speeds. I know that on the club rides I attend (I'm typically
the oldest of the attendees) I usually finish in the front half of the
group, and often first. Not that they're races. I just enjoy speeding up
at times.
 
Not that it matters. I dispute the implication that faster riders
naturally crash more. It takes miles of riding to get fast, and people
with miles of experience tend to be more skillful.
 
You may be an exception.

 
 
 
 
Frank, obviously you do not ride with a Garmin and believe that my claim
of riding an average soeed of 11 mph is slow. Yet I drop most other
riders and just 4 or 5 years ago I would drop them on hard climbs despite
averaging 13 mph. When you have no idea what real average speed is why
would you even begin to think that on a 30 lb 6 speed freewheel bike you
could even keep me on a 19 lb 12 speed Campy equiped bike even in sight?

11 mph on road is definitely slow, It’s what i average on the Gravel bike
off road, ie down muddy tracks, rooty climbs and so on!

On a pure road route and I tend to potter on the road, as I’m much less
interested 15mph average give or take.

11mph is the speed I ride on the commute on a big heavy old MTB etc.

 
You make statement after statement that shows an utter lack of
understanding of riding speeds and think yourself a good rider. I'm sure
that you are a good rider but you're not even close to the same speed
regime and I am recovering from a stroke.
 

Your Strava rides etc said otherwise, it was somewhat foolish to link to
those.

Roger Merriman