Trans-Canada Trail on Bicycle

This sunny afternoon, I took my Diamondback Sorrento mountain bike to test on the Trans-Canada Trail, a dirt road of mostly gravels and sand on its surface. The connecting paths leading to the trail were almost all paved NCC bike paths though, and only a small portion of street paths.

With mostly light breeze, I achieved the following one-way performance data:

Trip distance: 14.53 km
Moving time: 45 minutes
Moving avg speed: 19.2 km/h
Max speed: 31.3 km/h

Since there were no steep downhill slopes, my max speed was about 6 km/h slower than yesterday's. But the dirt road trail was probably a stretch of a 20-minute ride at a slower pace. Still a slow-poke on bike, no doubt :)

So long for now...

Biking in the Summer

Since the beginning of this month, I have been doing some biking at least once a week to work on my blue Diamondback Sorrento. It is actually an 18-inch frame, 21-speed, mountain bike with 26-inch wheels. I had bought it used recently.


Just yesterday, I decided to carry a hiking GPS, which I attached to my backpack to gauge my biking performance (I carried a backpack since I didn't have an on-bike side pouches installed like most bike commuters do).

So, with the usual light headwind, here are my slow-poke performance data for a one-way trip on a mixed street and trail pathway ;)

Trip distance: 16.56 km
Moving time: 50 min
Moving avg speed: 20.1 km/h
Max speed: 37.1 km/h

Surprisingly, I had probably achieved the 37 km/h max speed running down a short stretch of the steep hilly slope somewhere along the pathway (some places have posted speed limit signs of 20 km/h though). Nevertheless, there are still several bikers on their speed and road bikes passing me with ease.

Will see if I will improve on my slow-poke performance by summer's end.