10 Ways To Improve Your Average Speed On The Bike – Cycle Faster!

Improving your average speed, it's the holy grail for cyclists, here are 10 tips on how to achieve it.

The feeling of speeding along on your bike is like no other, but there can come a point when you struggle to get any faster. The good news is that it's not all about fitness, although that helps too! In this video, Matt and Dan talk through 10 things that you can try out, to help you increase the speed of your rides. We'd love to know how you get on, let us know in the comments section below.

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[stephenmiller]

Hi: I'm an 82 year old biker in Rhode Island and really enjoy all your tips, which I try to apply whenever possible! FYI, last year I broke the 80+ age group record in the Cable, Wisconsin Firehouse 50 ride on a Tomasso Corvo bike, which I consider my best friend (other than my wife, of course)!

[simonrano]

I set the auto-pause speed on my Garmin to 30 kph, I am damn fast since

[chandanakarunarathne]

Thank you very much. You guys are awesome. Very practical. I am 43 yrs old. I started cycling recently mainly after watching you guys. I am cycling only 20-25km at a time once or twice a week yet plus some around 10 kms couple of times a week. I am getting fitter and fitter gradually. Enjoying views, enjoying life. Minimized my car use for short travels. I am sure you guys are helping millions of people to get the best out of their lives by that way. Thanks again. I wish we have more people like you in this world.

[TheWaxChainFanClub]

The momentum thing saved me 3 minutes on my commute, I caught the nights and carried the speed uphill.
Closest I've been to Boss so far. When I got home I had to have a beer and look at pictures of Chris Froome for 10 minutes.

[yoda]

Something I'd add on the subject of rolling resistance: find routes with better pavement. Most of the roads in my area are in terrible shape, and I know I definitely go faster, both for comfort reasons and likely rolling resistance reasons, on smoother asphalt.

[arrowzfly]

Could we have a tour of the GCN Office and staff? I have the misconception that Lasty, Simon, Matt, filmmaker Tom and mostly Dan do all the work to produce the videos.

[covboy]

Another one is to not ease off at the top of a climb. If you are holding a certain sustainable effort, the temptation is to always freewheel or certainly ease off as the road flattens, avoid that urge over the crest and keep going at the same effort for longer

[vitalymaliarov]

I'm 15 and my average speed is 12mph, thanks for these tips as I wanna get up to at least 15

[Goonigans]

15 minutes to clip in !! at least Matt is improving

[.mm]

how do i improve my avg speed?
ride on early morning when few motorists get in d way.

[wrongwhey]

Hello from Florida, I just picked up cycling and found this channel. Amazing information you guys are sharing.

[shenava]

Another tip is to keep pedaling downhill so you carry more speed when the road flattens out or even better when it goes straight into another hill in which case the momentum carries you further up hill and you spend less energy getting to the top leaving you fresher at the top to get back up to speed again.

[alexr]

You guys forgot to mention running stop signs and red lights!

[rocbola]

With regards to your joke of getting an e-bike to help with your speed, i must say that the skills attained from riding my e-bike at higher speed has helped my confidence in riding faster on my road bike.

[rosamente]

Thanks guys! I have been slowly gaining more experience in riding, and I appreciate little tips like this that help unexperienced riders like me to keep pushing and breaking personal bests!

[aidizhang]

Hey, I had 25 wide tires on my bicycle when it was New, switched to 23 took ten minutes off my one hour ride time, increased my speed also. Peace Out ✌️

[latuman]

Avg speed for me is a personal goal and nothing too serious. Yet to break 30 when riding alone. Since I just bought my first proper road bike and losing a few kilograms of weight, it might become a reality yet.

[TheMarman]

Add to all of the above, a well structured training programme to gradually increase your speed endurance on the bike. I'm 60 next birthday, and I recently completed a hilly 65 Km loop at an average of 37.7 Kmh without bursting a blood vessel. More to come !!

[elit]

Nice video. I enjoy see the really nice roads you guys ride on. I am working to loose weight, it's the least expensive way to improve my speed. Thanks for all the tips. Always enjoy your videos.

[howardnhughes]

As a 62 year old road cyclists I try to save as much as I can by following a few of the tips given and consequently keep my average speed as high as possible. I've lost a little weight, I've got decent Hunt wheels along with decent tyres. The bike (Harry Hall Reynolds 531 steel frame) was built and set up for me to my specifications including my favourite group set (Shimano Ultegra). It goes quite fast and on a good day with minimal head or tail wind easily rolls along at 18 to 19 mph and when I have a portion of free air can wind it up to 40+... GCQ make very useful videos giving great tips and advice. The one about what not to wear is one of the funniest pieces of advise videos I've seen...Chapeau chaps...