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How long would it take to bike 500 miles?

Asked by aviona (3260points) March 26th, 2009

I know there are a lot of factors to be considered here (miles per day, hills, weather, type of bike, etc). But let’s say you were to bike from SF to LA. Anyone have an idea of how long it would take? Ballpark. Guesstimate.

I’m terrible at figuring this stuff out. I Googled it and couldn’t really find much.

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Lightlyseared's avatar

Let’s say you can cycle at a steady 25 mph, it would take you 20 hours continuous cycling to do it.

berocky1's avatar

Well. My bike is not ridden by humans and it going 5 million miles an hour. You do the math!!

aviona's avatar

Ack. I suck at math.

Thanks @Lightlyseared

& shutup @berocky1

SpatzieLover's avatar

Me? On my bike? Prolly about 3 yrs, give or take a year.

btko's avatar

I’ll convert to kilometres because that’s what I work it – it’s easy to average about 100 kilometres a day (about 60 miles)... so it would take about 8 to 10 days.

aviona's avatar

Thanks @btko, that’s kind of what I figured…over a week

Nice @Lightlyseared :)

berocky1's avatar

@ ligtlyseared. How did you figure that out? Like. What formula

berocky1's avatar

No. Like. What formula

aviona's avatar

Haha. You guys are funny.

aviona's avatar

So now my next question is…would I die biking on Route 1? Hahaha. Just kidding.

Lightlyseared's avatar

500 miles at 5 million mph is 1 ten thousandth of an hour.

berocky1's avatar

I know that. :))) thanks

Lightlyseared's avatar

So that’s how you work it out. You calculate 1 ten thousandth of an hour.

berocky1's avatar

Gee thanks.  math nightmares

aviona's avatar

serrriously.

Aster's avatar

And here I am worried about riding mine five feet.

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