On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:23:36 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 4:56:38 PM UTC, Peter Parry wrote:

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group of
MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow sunglasses who
put their journey times on Strava so they can be king of the small
piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently they achieved
a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed for utility
cyclists is 9MPH.

I used to fall off at 9mph!
My average was about 16-18mph.

Yes - but you were the archetypal MAMIL, rainbow hued sunglasses with
built in compocam, lurid Lycra, gloves with no fingers. The group
that bears no relationship to utility cyclists. Unfortunately they
also (and have for a century) have purporting to represent cycling in
the UK. They fought against dedicated cycle lanes, fitting lights on
bikes and promoted the daft idea of "vehicular cycling". More than
any other group they are directly responsible for the decline of
utility cycling in the UK. Holland is often used as the ideal for
cyclists yet amongst the thousands going to work each day a tiny
proportion are dressed like traffic cones for Christmas. UK, you need
the sunglasses to hide glare from lurid Lycra.