Originally Posted by RMoudatir

I recently built a steel gravel bike last month, I don't really care too much about speed, it even has wide semi knobby tires and weighs almost 30 lbs loaded with gear. I noticed that my speed has increased after starting to ride this bike. I think mainly due to how I enjoy the ride and that I have more motivation on it after having my specialized allez stolen in 2018 and using a beat up fuji ever since. Just going from being able to ride from 12 mph avg on the old bike to 16 mph avg on the new bike got me feeling like I just started cycling. I felt great breaking my own PRs that I hadn't touched since 2016.