Your choice of bike will depend on your own tastes too and the kind of distance and terrain you want to ride.
What is a good bike ride distance.
It should be very close to the product of your inseam in centimeters multiplied by 0 883.
Measure the distance between the bottom bracket and the top of the seat.
Then you can try to increase the time to 45 minutes.
Also this workout will help strengthen the muscles that will help you maintain balance on the cycle.
Wider and softer saddles are only more comfortable for shorter rides or very upright riding positions.
Say your weekend ride is two hours.
You will often see slack and long used as a description of mountain bikes.
Invest in a good pair of padded shorts and change your position and posture as needed to relieve pressure on certain areas of your body.
These bikes will also have a slacker head angle to help make the bike easier to ride at speed.
The average individual conducting a long distance bicycle tour will cycle between 40 and 60 miles 64 96 kilometers each day.
This is your seat height.
If you are on a long distance ride though chances are you are not going to be going full speed all of the time.
To start you want to ride at 55 60 rpm for about 5 minutes to warmup then speed up to 65 70 rpm for about 20 minutes.
But over the course of 50 60 or 100 miles you re going to feel every bump on that road through your hands shoulders neck and butt.
Turn around if not on a loop and do the same 20 minutes of 65 70 rpm and 5.
This will also help you gradually build stamina.
Cycling is a relatively low impact sport on your legs.
Of course long bike rides do require a certain level of endurance and it s best to work on gradually building the distance and intensity of your rides.
I find it s more motivated to watch things like cycling spin classes or trainer videos from people like gcn or ctxc so you re varying pace and difficulty.
There are many different types of cycling and a multitude of bikes that will let you.
For me as a regular cyclist i do 12 miles round trip to work and back if i then go on turbo for 30 40 minutes i d expect to do 9 12 miles on it.
Depending on your time constraints and where you live you can either do longer trips mostly training for your but or go farther steeper in the same time what i prefer.
17 km and 50 minutes are a very good point to start.