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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by lmm on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @12:27AM (#29158054)
Google maps pads their bike times by a huge amount. (I just googled 8km in 35 minutes and got results asking about that as a running pace).
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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by tomcooks on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:26AM (#29158389)
That's due to the sES spamfest fitness blog driven results.

Google maps calculations are decided by Google and take into account padding plus some degree of inclination calculation

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