If 20mph is evens, what is 30 or 40?

[LeeW]

Quite a few people I have talked to have referred to 20mph as "evens". Any idea where that word comes from?
Also, is there a word to describe riding at 30Mph or even 40?
I still remember the first time I did a 10 mile time trial in under 30 mins (20mph), I was told I had broken evens. This year I managed 10 miles in 18:59 (faster than 30mph), I wonder what I broke then?
My target for next year is to ride 1 hour on a Velodrome at 40mph (current PB: 35.2mph), Would you call that double-evens?

 

[Smokin Joe]

30mph = Fast
40mph = Bloody fast.

BTW Lee, looking at that contraption on your avatar you don't happen to live in Pembrokeshire do you?

 

[fossyant]

18.39 for a ten - you weren't cheating in that banana were you ?

 

[MichaelM]

I think it's 100 rpm for a given ratio (don't know what that ratio is though). Hence 30mph is 3:2 and 40 mph is 2:1

 

[Will1985]

18:59? Unlikely unless your name is Nik Bowdler.

On second viewing, you must mean on a recumbent, because the current UCI proper bike hour record is about 49km/h.

 

[02GF74]

I bloody hope so coz that is shifting!!

 

[LeeW]

Yep, recumbent
I don't live in Pembrokeshire

 

[bonj2]

Quite a few people I have talked to have referred to 20mph as "evens". Any idea where that word comes from?
Also, is there a word to describe riding at 30Mph or even 40?

yes - driving.

 

[snorri]

Any idea where that word comes from?

Never heard of it, perhaps you should ask in Racing.

 

[Dave5N]

Evens= even tempo

 

[Dave5N]

yes - driving.

STill not been on the track then Bonj?

 

[robz400]

I thought evens referred to 25mph, eg doing a 25 mile tt in one hour??

 

[Dave Davenport]

It's going under 30 mins for a 10 mile tt i.e avg. 20mph+

 

[robz400]

Well thats good news cos i did 20.75 miles in 1 hour and 15 secs on sunday and was thinking that i'd never be able to hit evens

 

[bonj2]

STill not been on the track then Bonj?

no, and neither have I slapped myself in the face with a wet haddock, watched any paint dry, or in the absence of being able to find a plastic bin bag, knitted one out of hair. Should I?