What is the average speed of a top pro on flat?

Just a touch faster then everyone else.
Thats what makes him a top pro rather then an average one.

As someone will tell you soon, there are other forum for such meaningless questions. Who care about average speed? I bet some days their average speed on flats are arround 35 km/h, go figure why

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I always assumed that a pro-tour racer could sit in the peloton at 42-44km/h on the flats for a few hours and call it recovery day

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17 and stupid, bear with me

The guys on the team at Davis already go 25 mph on the flats without too much difficulty. I would assume at least 28 mph for the pros even with half of them coasting taking a stroll

we, very much not pro, raced last sunday a flat race, little wind for 115km at 46,1 km/h average. Average heartrate 162, so not really recovery, but not killing me either.
Pro's can go faster!

@chadm
What is yours ?

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The reason for stating the question was to see how my training was going. I am currently able to stay at 25mph on flat for a long time. I train by sprinting from one stop light to the next, along with long rides. Note I am not a pro. I just have a great passion to do something I love. And next season I will make more effort to race competitively.

May I respectfully suggest that there are better ways to judge your fitness. Nothing beats structured training IMO

As to the pros, are they getting paid? Are they riding in a group. TT bike or road? Are they French?

Even then let me point out that lots of us could keep up on the flats, its the mountains that are the bugger

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SO..... maybe this thread should be in the Training section of this forum? If you've never been there before, plenty of information for you.
viewforum.php?f=8

Have a mod move this thread.

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Exp001

Ok thanks!

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BTW: if you take a look at average speed for pro tt's, you will see that a strong pro on a flat can do about 28-30mph for some time. . . the best have been 53-54kph in the TDF, and Fabian, for instance, did the 50km in Mendrisio @ 32mph AVERAGE, which means he was probably going faster than that on the flats. . .but that was on a TT bike. ..

If you want to test your fitness, just race.

If you turn into a pro, please send me a jersey.

cancelara.. this year. Quatar tour = 82km/h on flat I think.. wow

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Ninja

That would need something like a 55x11 at 126rpm!

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