Swindon rider Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Is it 2 or 4 mph? Im trying to set up my speedo on my road bike but it has a button on the back which does somethin to the read out, when i walk along with the bike it reads 2mph, then when i press the little pin button on the back it changes to 4mph, it also changes this wierd little picture in the corner, I cannot find it in the instructions (i've probly lost half), So basically i want to know how fast we walk. Stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 4 ish :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishwog Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 The world average's at 1 metre per second.... Soooo, thats 60 metre's a minute. 60x60 = 360 therefore you walk 360 metre's an hour. 1610 metre's to a mile. 1610 / 360 = 4.722 Therefore.... On Average.... We walk at..... rounded up..... 5mph. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 The world average's at 1 metre per second.... ← Where did that come from? I think your maths is wrong too... 5mph walking speed (if it was 1m/s) would mean when running 100m in 10s, you average 50mph... nice :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 (edited) Do they reach 50mph in the 100m sprint? Seems a bit quick. :D EDIT: I realised my mistake, thats why i edited, :P, yeah 50mph is way to quick. Edited February 8, 2005 by JT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 I know. But Sam says 1m/s ~ 5mph. Therefore, 100m in 10s = 10m/s So 10m/s ~ 50mph! Edit: Hardly gospel, but they got 3.4mph here: http://www.jug.net/wt/155f1danielle_a.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishwog Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 No it means they run the 100metre's at 47.22mph...duhhhhhh!! Yeah...ummmm.....dunno :D I got the 1 metre a second thing from a science research site I occassionally look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on that? u must be joking Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 The world average's at 1 metre per second.... Soooo, thats 60 metre's a minute. 60x60 = 360 therefore you walk 360 metre's an hour. 1610 metre's to a mile. 1610 / 360 = 4.722 Therefore.... On Average.... We walk at..... rounded up..... 5mph. :D ← 60 x 60 = 3600 metres/hour then you want to divide it by the number of metres in the mile, which you say is 1610. so you get (metres/hour)/(metres/mile) remember the fraction your dividing by turn upside down and multiply, so you get 3600/1610 = speed in miles/hour or mph which is 2.23 ish assuming you walk at 1 m/s Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishwog Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 (edited) ^^ I know no-one is going to believe me when I say this, but that is just what I was going to say, well along the lines of anyway :D So sprinters average what......23mph at 100m ? That's quite fast.... Edited February 8, 2005 by Fishwog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badboy Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Joe Average walks at approx 3-4mph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 So sprinters average what......23mph at 100m ? That's quite fast.... ← Yep, theyre rather speedy :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 It's even more than that, isn't it? At the last Olympics they speed-trapped the sprinters throughout the course of the 100m race, and they got up past 30mph at one point, but they slow down at about 30-ish metres to a sort of 'cruising speed' after the initial burst at the start. Either way, it's insane how fast they go. If you stand there, then measure out 10m then think "They cover that on average in less than a second", it hits home pretty well. I always think of the average as 3.5mph for any sort of practical purpose, and it seems to be about right? Even though with girls it seems to drop to about 1mph whenever they get into any group larger than 2 people :)\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hititfaster Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 We were always told to estimate at 3mph when I did DofE, but I think Ad was about right with 4. Less maths... better :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 I wouldnt mind getting a road bike, just to bomb around on :) Anyone want to swap bikes? hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardman Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 They do go pretty fast in the 100m but there aceleration is even faster and they accelerate for a considerable length of the 100m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 They do go pretty fast in the 100m but there aceleration is even faster and they accelerate for a considerable length of the 100m ← Mmm, I'm sure I heard that they're still accelerating by the end of the 100m. So, if 23mph is the AVERAGE speed... They go "quite" fast :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAT~DAN Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 you walk a mile every 15 mins approx apparently Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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