30 mph average?

[iLB]

Andy, it's bs mate.. Think about it, can you honestly believe you can scoot down the A21 to Hastings in 2 hours at maximum work rate for the complete distance? I Think not.
Which Bike shop was it?

Cycles UK in Tonbridge.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Are they the ones on the high street opposite the castle, or the shop behind the high street whose back door looks out onto the swimming pool/castle car park?

I'd recommend Everndon Cycles in Paddock Wood.

 

[iLB]

On the high street, opposite the castle.

 

[Auntie Helen]

I have to say I didn't find them very helpful when I went in with an initial enquiry about a recumbent trike ("Oooh, you don't want one of those!"), and seems their speed estimation is a bit dodgy too. Might be fine otherwise, though!

 

[roadiewill]

Putting the BS in LBS - pure class!!

haha

he probably meany kph...if not then BULLLLLL

 

[Aperitif]

Putting the BS in LBS - pure class!!

Good one!

 

[dellzeqq]

Orpington to Hastings is 49 miles if you cross the M25 on the B221 - less if you take the M25 spur down to the northern end of the A21, which (many years ago) was do-able. It's not flat on the stretch around Tonbridge, which probably puts it beyond the 2 hour mark for anything other than a really fast club run, but plenty of two up time trials have beaten 2 hours for 50 miles. Maresfield and Uckfield are bypassed these days (actually they've been bypassed for the a while, but I used to go down the A21 in the 70s) so I can't see that the traffic would hold you up.

 

[iLB]

Orpington to Hastings is 49 miles if you cross the M25 on the B221 - less if you take the M25 spur down to the northern end of the A21, which (many years ago) was do-able. It's not flat on the stretch around Tonbridge, which probably puts it beyond the 2 hour mark for anything other than a really fast club run, but plenty of two up time trials have beaten 2 hours for 50 miles. Maresfield and Uckfield are bypassed these days (actually they've been bypassed for the a while, but I used to go down the A21 in the 70s) so I can't see that the traffic would hold you up.

But would you then be in any state to turn around and go back at the same pace? as he suggested.

 

[Auntie Helen]

I personally wouldn't want to cycle down the A21 at all, I think it's a pretty unpleasant road with traffic going far too fast and a fairly rough surface. I think doing it in 2 hours must be nigh on impossible. All those roundabouts around Uckfield don't help either!

 

[Cranky]

Orpington to Hastings is 49 miles if you cross the M25 on the B221 - less if you take the M25 spur down to the northern end of the A21, which (many years ago) was do-able. It's not flat on the stretch around Tonbridge, which probably puts it beyond the 2 hour mark for anything other than a really fast club run, but plenty of two up time trials have beaten 2 hours for 50 miles. Maresfield and Uckfield are bypassed these days (actually they've been bypassed for the a while, but I used to go down the A21 in the 70s) so I can't see that the traffic would hold you up.

But that's nowhere near the 30+ mph average referred to in the OP, surely?

 

[yenrod]

That'll be kmp/hr - the story telling bloke has lost it in translation or wanted it to sound better...