Best guess at how long

[sticky sherbert]

My new bike should be here sometime next week, Giant Escape M Zero, it's an 11.9 mile commute, flat all the way (North Lincolnshire has no idea what a hill is) 2 roundabouts, 4 T junctions. I haven't been on a bike for anything over 2 miles in the last ten years but have been running 6 to 7 miles twice a week. How long it will take me bearing in mind that it's bound to be blowing a gale and peeing it down the first time I leave the motor at work. No prize for the best guess just the satisfaction of being right.

 

[Tynan]

hour tops

 

[Keith Oates]

55 mins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dayvo]

51 (on the way home)

 

[summerdays]

Traffic lights also slow you down... if you haven't got any then I'm deeply envious (I don't have to be envious of the bike - I've got one). As my commutes are always hilly I haven't got the foggiest how much that changes things ... as I go about 5 mph up hills and upto 30 mph down them but I'm a scaredy cat.

 

[Wolf04]

Nice bike 48mins, now don't let me down

 

[John the Monkey]

45! Ride like the wind!

 

[Tetedelacourse]

hmm, you don't say how long it takes you to run. I have no idea what kind of a bike it is either so I'll go for 44 mins, just to nullify John's guess!

 

[John the Monkey]

Are we going to have a sweep on this then?

 

[rich p]

52 mins

 

[Maz]

...it's an 11.9 mile commute, flat all the way...

You can seriously damage your rim doing that. Best to fix it.

 

[Wolf04]

sticky sherbert wrote: "No prize for the best guess just the satisfaction of being right."

It's a good job we are not a competitive lot what with the commuter racing and everything, no of course I dont!

John the Monkey wrote "Are we going to have a sweep on this then?"

Oh go then, here's my virtual pound

 

[Absinthe Minded]

47 minutes.

 

[4F]

54 mins

 

[spindrift]

Rural or urban? Plus, not meaning you, RLJing doesn't count, AFAIC.