Modern steels- can they get any better?

[Mark McM]

Originally Posted by mhespenheide

I totally understand the premise. But if there's only a 5 second difference per mile, a delta of ten minutes is 600 seconds. 600 divided by five is 120. 120 miles.

If you're 12 miles from home, a delta of 5 seconds per mile is 12*5=60 seconds.

So, if the riders travel at roughly ~20 mph, then at a difference of 5 sec. per mile the the slower rider would be 10 minutes and 3 1/3 miles behind the faster rider at the end of this 6 hour ride. Or if the faster rider didn't take up 10 minutes before they start riding explaining how his bike was 5 sec. per mile faster, they would both finish before it started raining.