Picked up from another thread pootle or what( POLL)

[Gravity Aided]

I still try medium when I can, a few health issues and lack of regular riding have brought me a newfound appreciation of the pootle.

 

[SuperHans123]

14 mph average is a fast ride for me!

This

 

[Alan O]

At my age and state of health I pootle. I used to have a computer on each of my bikes and trikes and spent a lot of time trying to get the average speed up on each ride. I had one fail on me and realised that I'd enjoyed that ride far more than my last hundred. I then removed all of my computers, forgot about speed and enjoyed every ride rather than obsessing about an extra 0.1mph.

One of the first things I did when I rebuilt my old bike in 2016 was put a cycle computer on it - I'd had one of those wheel-mounted belt-driven odometers on it before, as I like to keep a track of total distance. I also got a second computer to fit on another bike I was building from scratch.

But I found it distracting, and I couldn't stop looking at it and thinking about my speed while I really should have been enjoying my surroundings more, and I ended up removing it (and I didn't fit one on the second bike). I do use a fitbit or iPhone to do GPS tracking, but the fitbit is on my wrist and/or the iPhone is in my bag, and they're not distracting like that - and I don't look at them until after I get back home.

 

[Maenchi]

My average speed is usually on or near 10mph, on a flat ride for 2miles I got 12&14mph on 2 different rides that's fast for me , I agree with the pootle being a state of mind.......over say a 25mile ride even if i'm 'going for it' or 'trying for it' more like.. I still get 10mph average. .serious pootling brings it to nearer 6-7 mph. Frequently/every time, on the road when a road bike rider passes me which they always do i'm amazed at the speed they/you go at.........and it's sunny right now so i'm off for a couple of hours round the coast road......

 

[Banjo]

Very much depends on how long the ride is and if your working from a time and distance calculation or some fictitious average speed calculated by RWGPS ot similar mapping websites.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

11 mph is me trying to speed up!

 

[byegad]

I'm a 12mph racer......so have ticked the top two boxes.

If you will race about like a lunatic you'll miss the wildlife in the hedgerows and the views. I usually take 2 hrs for my 18 mile loop, more if I stop and stare at something that's caught my eye.

 

[Vantage]

10mph here. And that's a brisk pootle.
13mph is as achievable as breaking the sound barrier.

 

[gbb]

I'm in a state of flux as said on the other pootle thread. ...im getting to the stage I'm a permanent pootler but can achieve 14mph average although I can't do the distances anymore. Come the spring and summer I'll try to be more a 14mph average, maybe 15...but for now, I'm a pootler....hovering around 13 to 14 mph, but its still hard.

 

[Saluki]

12-14mph pootle. I stop to look at the view, watch ducks, take pictures etc.
I don’t race and ride for pure pleasure and fitness.

 

[Aravis]

I really don't think I could ever bimble or pootle in the conventional sense, however slow I get. So from now on I'm going to call myself a trundler - a pootler who doesn't stop, perhaps.

I've voted for "medium ride", although looking at where I am at the moment, 14mph seems utterly inconceivable.

But not so many months ago I did this:

It must be my wheels. Or tyres.

 

[Alan O]

I really don't think I could ever bimble or pootle in the conventional sense, however slow I get. So from now on I'm going to call myself a trundler - a pootler who doesn't stop, perhaps.

I've voted for "medium ride", although looking at where I am at the moment, 14mph seems utterly inconceivable.

But not so many months ago I did this:

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It must be my wheels. Or tyres.

You forgot the one piece of vital information that would explain everything - what pressure were you running?

Being serious, what strikes me most about that is that you were only stopped for less than 7 minutes! When I did a 100-miler last year my moving time totaled 9 hours (ave speed 11 mph), but my lapsed time was nearer 12 hours.

 

[BSOh]

10 miles today. About 10 stops. One of them for a nose round m&s, one round halfords, and one to get tea and cake. The others were scenery appreciation stops and rest stops. Took about 3 hours all in It might be my best pootle yet.

 

[si_c]

Depends on the ride. Commutes tend to be a sprint, as fast as I can, aiming for a 20 average out and back. Other times I'll amble along around 16mph average.

 

[SuperHans123]

Depends on the ride. Commutes tend to be a sprint, as fast as I can, aiming for a 20 average out and back. Other times I'll amble along around 16mph average.

16MPH is not ambling along.