Timeline for How does biking speed correlate with the required effort?
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| May 28, 2022 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBicycles/status/1530519257439784961 | ||
| Apr 27, 2022 at 15:50 | vote | accept | quarague | ||
| Apr 27, 2022 at 12:41 | comment | added | bdsl | Technically friction with the ground isn't something that slows you down and you need to overcome. Tyres are designed to have very high friction with the ground, aka traction, which is what you need too accelerate, brake, and avoid falling over. The thing that slows you down is rolling resistance. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 10:38 | comment | added | Chris H | ... It's less marked but still significant with some groups of slower adults. With other groups we can just roll along smoothly at a relaxed pace, so unpredictability of some riders may be a factor. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 10:37 | comment | added | Chris H | @Jahaziel riding with slower riders, particularly if some of them are in front of you (as tends to be the case when I'm riding with kids so I can deal with the traffic) takes extra concentration. For example if my daughter descends on the brakes because freewheeling feels scary, she lets them off later than I would, so gets to the bottom then suddenly decelerates. I then have to brake sharply especially if I was looking over my shoulder at the wrong moment. The extra physical effort from that is minimal but it's mentally draining. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 10:10 | answer | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 7:44 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 27, 2022 at 7:08 | answer | added | nightrider | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 23:07 | comment | added | Jahaziel | I think there is a psychological factor in the time it takes to complete the ride/route. Maybe exerting a little more effort for a shorter time, "feels" less exhausting. I some times feel very tired after a given ride accompanying slower riders, and the same ride at my own pace "feels" less tiring. And even riding along faster riders feels I feel just fine immediately after the ride, but a few hours later, I get extremely tired. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 21:03 | answer | added | David D | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 16:15 | history | edited | DavidW |
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| Apr 26, 2022 at 15:49 | comment | added | Affe | Riding at a speed that you feel requires concentration to stay upright while simultaneously monitoring the safety of children sounds very exhausting! You could try practicing riding slowly in a lower gear with a modest cadence if you find you end up in too high a gear doing big forceful strokes then coasting at low speed which a lot of people do. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 15:44 | answer | added | Weiwen Ng | timeline score: 10 | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 14:28 | comment | added | quarague | @DavidD It feels that way, yes. It also contradicts my rudimentary physics knowledge, hence the question. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 14:27 | comment | added | quarague | @Michael That is very useful, thanks. Maybe put it into an answer? | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 13:39 | comment | added | Andy P | The equations in the link from @Michael are basically an answer to this question | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 13:36 | comment | added | David D | Are you saying that 10km/h feels more exhausting than 20km/h? | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 13:22 | comment | added | Michael | You can play around with this calculator: kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm | |
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| S Apr 26, 2022 at 13:12 | history | asked | quarague | CC BY-SA 4.0 |