Hello,
so recently I've bought a Scott Speedster S30 bike as my 2nd bike. Until now I've been riding a Mongoose crossbike and I've been hitting 32km/h avg speed on a flat course, 30km. This course has few corners and basically no stops, so its "pedal to the metal" (well the other way round) action all the time. Obviously the avg speed was altered occasionally by strong wind, but the 31-32km/h mark was pretty constant. I got pretty slick tires on the crossbike, but they are still a bit fat and around 3-4 bars pressure max. Also got TT handle bars on them (amateur ones)
Now, its was my 4th or 5th time on the same course with my Scott bike and ... I got the same times. Almost identical. At first I thought it was the pressure, I pumped 5 bars, which was much too low (6-9 suggested on the tire), so I pumped to 7 and had no significant improvement.
What is wrong, is it me or the bike? I know I shouldnt have expected that all of the sudden I would hit 40km/h marks, but come on, at least 3-4km/h more?
Also Mongoose has now like 10k done, its been serviced, but it doesnt go so smoothly either way and Scott is brand new basically, it was a demo.
Suggestions? Should there be an increase at all? I mean 32km/h avg on a road bike on short course is quite bad, isn't it? I was happy with it on the crossbike.
so recently I've bought a Scott Speedster S30 bike as my 2nd bike. Until now I've been riding a Mongoose crossbike and I've been hitting 32km/h avg speed on a flat course, 30km. This course has few corners and basically no stops, so its "pedal to the metal" (well the other way round) action all the time. Obviously the avg speed was altered occasionally by strong wind, but the 31-32km/h mark was pretty constant. I got pretty slick tires on the crossbike, but they are still a bit fat and around 3-4 bars pressure max. Also got TT handle bars on them (amateur ones)
Now, its was my 4th or 5th time on the same course with my Scott bike and ... I got the same times. Almost identical. At first I thought it was the pressure, I pumped 5 bars, which was much too low (6-9 suggested on the tire), so I pumped to 7 and had no significant improvement.
What is wrong, is it me or the bike? I know I shouldnt have expected that all of the sudden I would hit 40km/h marks, but come on, at least 3-4km/h more?
Also Mongoose has now like 10k done, its been serviced, but it doesnt go so smoothly either way and Scott is brand new basically, it was a demo.
Suggestions? Should there be an increase at all? I mean 32km/h avg on a road bike on short course is quite bad, isn't it? I was happy with it on the crossbike.