Question:
If it takes 20 minutes to drive somewhere, how long does it take to bike there?
Silly Rabbit_<3's Life
2014-02-12 04:45:08 UTC
Roughly, how long would it take?
Nine answers:
OldHippie
2014-02-12 05:30:13 UTC
There is NO possible way to answer this question precisely. What's the speed limit? How much traffic? How many stoplights & stop signs along the route?



20 minutes @ 60 mph highway speed is 20 miles. 20 minutes stuck in traffic might be a couple of blocks. GET IT NOW?



Go get yourself a BICYCLE COMPUTER & try it yourself. A bike computer will keep track of your current speed, average speed, max speed, odometer, trip odometer & even the time of that individual ride - down to the exact second. AMAZING! http://www.cateye.com/en/products/detail/CC-VL520/moreinfo/
anonymous
2014-02-12 23:24:59 UTC
It takes you 20 minutes to drive... how far, and how fast is your car going? How fast can you ride a bike (average speed for the route you choose)?



If it's 20 minutes at 30 mph, then you are talking about a distance of 10 miles. Now, that can be a smooth, flat 10 miles, or it can be 10 miles of up-and-down hills. Even a stiff headwind on a bike will slow you up, while it won't affect your car's speed a whit.



On the other hand, 20 minutes at 60 mph is 20 miles. That will take a while on a bike, even on a flat route. If you can hold a speed of 15 mph the whole time-- and that's a fairly brisk pace, particularly on a heavier bike-- it will still take you an hour and 20 minutes. With hills, or a strong headwind, it will probably take a lot longer.



Then again, as another person said, in heavy stop and go city traffic, a bike might be faster than a car. In that case, it might take 20 minutes to go 4 miles in a car. That's 12 mph, while your 15 mph bike can make the trip in about 16 minutes or so, not accounting for traffic lights.
Mtrlpqbiker
2014-02-12 13:23:53 UTC
Depends on the sort of roads and how much traffic. In heavy stop and go traffic a bike can be faster than a car. How far is it? How fast can you ride a bike? What sort of bike do you have?At a guess, since you are asking this question I will assume that you are inexperienced on a bike and have a cheap mountain bike. If this is true it will probably take over an hour

But this is only a guess
Bonghuffer
2014-02-12 14:56:33 UTC
It depends on the wind the hills, your bike and you.



My regular ride to work is 6 miles.



It's 17-26 minutes by car depending on traffic. Seven lights before I get on the highway, then four more and a stop sign before I'm in the lot.



I've done it in as little as 19 minutes well rested with a solid breakfast eaten and getting mostly green lights, cautiously running the few reds and rolling through the stop signs, sprinting between all of that on my skinny tire light touring bike, but I arrive covered in sweat and panting and really can't work for another ten minutes or so when my face goes back to its normal color.



Hungover and riding my 26x2.5" tire cruiser with a loaded rack into a headwind and stopping at every stinking intersection it takes me closer to an hour.



Most of the time I ride a single speed road bike with medium-width (35x622) tires pumped up to about 75psi at a moderate speed and get there in 30-40 minutes, depending on the wind.
?
2014-02-12 12:47:01 UTC
I used to ride my bicycle to work and it took 20 minutes. Then I got a motorcycle and (going the speed limit) it took about 10 minutes. So it'll probably be twice the amount of time. I'd say 40-45 minutes to bike if it took 20 in a vehicle.
Fuji Frank
2014-02-12 17:36:57 UTC
Install a bike computer & find out for yourself. Roughly? Anywhere from an hour to all day. How's that for a guess?
anonymous
2014-02-12 12:50:52 UTC
Oh i see haha you literally want to know to do it or w/e..



I thought that was a hw problem and was wtf how fast and all that shiz..



20 mins on highway??? pretty long time on bike.

20 mins on normal city street a lot less than above but 40 mins if you are an in shape bicyclist

over an hour for Trix cereal eaters lol jk
WleAtl-2
2014-02-12 14:27:55 UTC
anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours

how fast is the car going?



you can prob ride about 10 mph

6 minutes a mile



wle
Rebel
2014-02-13 10:55:15 UTC
Go buy one of these & find out for yourself.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Schwinn-Basic-Bicycle-Computer-Black/19593673


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