Rochey - Are you sure that 20.58 for a 10TT gives you an above 30mph average?
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Whats the fastest you have been on your bike under your own steam?
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82kmh. Self Propelled off road.
Well, I ate the pies and gravity acted on my body so in essence, its all my own work......
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50.4mph coming down the wiggly road from the kirkstone pass into ambleside, on knobblies in the wet. decided afterwards it was a bit silly given the circumstances.
Did a 10TT run by Reading Wheelers (?) a couple of years ago, starts at the top of a very big hill, I was doing 48mph after 27sec when the magnet on my Polar speedo slide down the spoke - had not reached terminal velocity by this stage so would have been doing well over 50, shame I only had a compact chainset on
23:12 for the 10 which is my best (so far)
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35mph on the flat, verified by a motorbike riding alongside. SS 52:16, 1.3 inch slicks.
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Down hill on a touring bike fully loaded ,panniers a bob trailer
78kmph
bit disappointed i didn't double the recommended speed of the bob
Stopped the computer @ 99kmph on the road bike!
Not the answer to the question the op asked
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32mph - about 130ish rpm and that was my gear maxed out...
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The speed signs are easy to set off but gatso's are much harder. As above, I suspect we're not reflective enough, bit of tin foil across your back might do it. I keep meaning to give this a go on one near us which is on a nice long hill.
As far my fastest, this isn't it (I've seen 55mph, but this is the fastest I've got a picture of)
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72mph near the bottom of the glacier last year in Les 2 Alpes and fell off slide for 100m shit myself
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Over 100 kph on a road bike down from Teide in Tenerife just past Vilaflor, over took a car who was shouting out of his window at top note, didn't realise till he over took me laster he was shouting words of encouragement for me to go faster, you dont get that in the UK.
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50.2 mph downhill on my road bike
Dont have a speedo on my MTB
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Do flat roads exist ? Around here they are either up or down.
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50+mph....! On a fully faired recumbent down the Avenue in Southampton. Woooooo!
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21.50 10mtt. won a few bunch sprints, guessing about 40mph briefly. however i'm far too scared to go for it downhill after a spectacular high speed wipe out years ago.
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Can hit 30mph on my hardtail on a flat road with Pan fires.
and downhill while i was at hamsterly managed to hit 44 on my heckler
Pedalled like a MOFO. I dont think the guy in the Disco at the bottom could quite believe it as i shot past, He was watching me on the way down, whooosh 
Last proper downhill fire road before the end!
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46 Mph on the run down into Les Gets from the top of Plenny, hanging on for dear life, hoping I don't lose it.
32 Mph on the hardtail on the flat on the way to work....but that was sat about 1.5 metres from the back end of a bus, hoping and praying his brake lights didn't come on!Posted 2 years ago # -
20mins for an average of 30 mph for a 10 mile tt
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46 mph coming down the back of the tak me doon road outside kilsyth. I may have hit about 40 mph coming down the crow road as well.
On the flat I have broken 30 a couple of times but cant hold it. I can hold 20 to 24 on the flat. Guess I am not a speed hero like a few people here.
I have however set off a speed camera many times - there is one here that I can set off most mornings - its at the bottom of a hill in a 30 and I can hit it at 38 ish and I seem to be reflective enough to trip it. Its very cool as the road narrows here so you can nip out the lane closest to the pavement, set off the camera, then jump in a lane in the space created by the cars stamping on their brakes as the camera goes off to dodge the parked cars in front off you.
Probably doesnt make drivers smile as much as it makes me smile
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I'm Surrounded By Idiots
Rochey - Are you sure that 20.58 for a 10TT gives you an above 30mph average?Goz
20mins for an average of 30 mph for a 10 mile ttYou have to go OVER av.30mph to go sub 20mins for a '10'.
Try as I might, I couldn't even get under 21mins this year - which makes my best av. speed for a '10' 28.54mph
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Absolutely no idea.
Oh come on, this thread was MADE for you
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AndyP - Member
Mach 4.2
cheers
Glupton He is unavailable to comment, too busy pulling doughnuts round and round startled ATGNI's in an icy trail centre car park.
But I am sure it will be much faster than me. (Never one for bike computers but on a flat-windless-tarmac-commuter-bike-day with 44/11 gears I reckon no more than 24 mph! And I would be in bits if I kept that up for more than a few minutes.)
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Look closer people.
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prob around 28-30 but never really checked - don't own a road bike nor a computer.
used computer for touring though, and on fully laden touring bike on the road i hit 75kph (46.6 mph)in NZ and 48.2mph (77.6 kph) on a dirt road in iceland
both were scarey enough for me thankyouverymuch.
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On the flat i have hit 46mph on my road bike when i was in my late teens, i had an electronic speedo. Downhill i have reached 55mph going down into swaledale from buttertubs when i was fully laden on my touring bike which only had sidepull brakes..After cycling to malham to see my girlfriend on my way back i raced a coach for 5 miles from clapham to bentham and overtook it going downhill into bentham..no speedo that day but great fun!
Just wish i could still do it!
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Own? probably 32+- but for few seconds till heart failure.
75mph as 15 stupid kid holding on to pal's car...slap on the head.
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FTAO,
Im surrounded by idiots!!! Rocheys 10 tt time of 20.58 is more like an average of 28mph.
My best 10 time is 22.58 and i ave. 26 something mph, and we have a slow "flat 10".Posted 2 years ago # -
Most I've managed is 32mph on my roadie and fast enough to scare myself a bit and cook the brakes on my mountain bike
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I'm Surrounded By Idiots - Premier Member
Look closer people.
Well, if you will insist on changing your 'screen name' (or whatever it's called) every three months....
Everyone has some idea George, even me with my aversion to cycle computers and the awful truth about how slow/little I really ride. Come on, humour the class with your guesstimate, eh?
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JW - if you cant be bothered to read the thread what hope is there of having a decent conversation with you?
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I'm Surrounded By Idiots - Premier Member
Come to think of it I once did 47mph through the golf course at Innerleithen.
Sorry G, missed that post.
Was there golf going on?
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Yes, but there is a road goes through the middle of the course. Flat too.
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Can do 35mph on the flat on the road bike. Have hit 55mph downhill with the wind behind me. Unfortunately, Scottish hills tend to have corners which prevent me going any quicker.
Friend of mine, who is his late 60s, was telling me of trip to the Pyranees (sp?) with his road bike. He used the phrase '...doing 78mph. I could have gone faster but I got scared.' 8OHope I'm like that at his age.
As for speed cameras, anyone know the one on Bracebridge Hill going down into Lincoln? 30 zone, went passed that at 42mph and completely failed to set it off, quite disapointed.
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Was it an urban myth that folk used to get pulled in after mobile police speed traps as the top of a bicycle wheel registered twice as fast as the bike was travelling?
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38mph down a hill.. probably about 20 on flat, I'm pretty unfit haha.
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Never really checked on the flat, but got 50mph on a tarmac downhill on my Inbred when in NZ.
Fastest Inbred in the south!Posted 2 years ago # -
I once managed 30mph on the flat on my mountain bike, with a tail wind of course. These days i dont use a Computer im just happy to ride not bothered about how fast im going.
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