[Closed] Anyone on here properly fast?

Yes, as long as no-one is watching and it's not being recorded then I am proper fast. Can't enter any events though so you'll just need to take my word for it.

reasonably quick in a boat but pretty slow on two wheels

Gary Fisher or Adam Craig I imagine

657 on Barry Knows Best - boom!

That kid in his blue 661 pyjamas *must* be fast...

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I got 30mph today, on a bicycle. Bow before me.

You don't get a prize for 17th place. As I discovered.

They are on the other "secret" forum

I have hit 47mph* on a raleigh mtb with one "working" cantilever brake...

*very briefly downhill on a road

According to the wife I am 🙁

At eating?

Yes I can eat a big mac and fries (large) in less than a minute.

Boom

Edit... Oh you meant on a bike! No not really.... Reason above.

George Budd (Gee on here) has won many a thing over the years

Gee
Njee
DrP
Terrahawk
Ant? AMT
MrBlobby is a TT
Lunge
TiRed
BikeBouy used to road race alot
Different people are quick at different things. Some quick over 200 miles off road, Rob Colliver for example , some quick at 20mile TT's, some quick over 1hr xc races.

I thought this was a new year diet thread

I went from upright to lying in an ice cold puddle at the side of the road at world record pace yesterday.

Bronze medal in a national championship road race?

(LVRC handicap 😀 )

a view years back I was 87th fastest down Minton Batch... and I stopped to wait for my wee lad......

Oh, I was less than a minute behind Gee Atherton once. Not bad for a Tuesday night ten.

GW

Ooh! Just saw that I'm fastest in the STW forumites group on Barry knows best. Might as well retire now, I'm never going to top that.

5 kom's to my name, make of that what you will.

For about 2 years I was ,for a middle aged bloke.I got medals to prove it too.Apart from constantly being hungry,tired and aching it was ok.
Now I'm fat and slow again.

tomhoward - Member
GW

at every discipline, including bicycle gymnastics

Mrs raced mtb worlds in 95 and 96 (back when GB entered people even if they weren't going to make the podium). Then overdid it and took years to get better. Dabbles a bit now that kids are trying racing.

I just try to keep up with them all .....

Thought i was quick until I ran in a northern mens athletic meet at Cleckheaton against Peter Elliot in the late 80's. Bit quicker than me.

The current nat hill climb champ is a member on here!

I'm superfast at eating and downing beer. And when I'm at peak fitness, I'm not too bad at climbing on the road.

Otherwise, no.

I'm only fast at eating & drinking.
I'm not fast on a bike & I can't fast (as in not eating)
& I really don't give a monkeys.

My brother beat Danny Hart a few times in the Junior/Youth cat and ended up part sponsored. If he hadn't dropped out of racing for girls/cars/booze he could have been on the worlds, repeatedly told by a lot of top riders that he had huge amounts of natural talent. He's got back into it recently and it's always good fun watching him show people up on a crapped out DH bike, he goes bigger now than he ever did when he was racing as he has a lot of extra strength/confidence that has come with age.

I'm not as fast. By quite a bit. 😀 It's all about fun though, isn't it. ❓ 😀 😐 He might as well be an alien, I have that much in common with his ability to read trails.

I was 21st in the country in my best and first National TT. Averaged 22.25 mph#. Next year I'm aiming for 23.33!

Compared to the mighty Maybank in our club, I am nowhere! But I do hold one TT record 😀

#for 12hrs. Surprised myself to be honest.

Can I have someone's autograph please, just in case.

I once finished 90th O/A in a summer Polaris.

Fast is all relative, I've got an engine and a punch so strava kom's and a top 20 age category Velethon time are all there. But all that does is impresse non cyclists 🙁 I'm no where close to proper racers, and the proper racers I know aren't close to the pro's we watch on TV doing the impossible !!!

Raddogair is a monster

3rd in the Torq 12:12 6hr hour veteran pair!

Boom!

(Always pick a category that fast people don't enter)

I was once the fastest stationary rider in Bristol 😉 (rollapalluza)

I am potentially THE fastest person on STW ... past, present, or in the future.

If only I was younger, fitter, stronger, had better physical and mental genetics, had more discipline and commitment ... and a healthier bank account, then I could realise my potential and prove it.

Dave from Hope Racing is on here a bit and he's quick. Dan from Hope also pops up here every now and then.

There are a couple of pretty fast enduro racers I'm aware of on here, though I wouldn't wanna embarrass anyone by naming names.

Well, if we're showing off...

I'm Indian national stone skimming champion.

I'd like to be faster on a bike, but unfortunately I don't have asthma.

In some other regards, I am pretty quick. I can clear a plate of lamb dopiaza, rice and a naan in a potentially world-beating time.

I have a KOM

The police warned me to slow down earlier.

Gee
Njee
DrP
Terrahawk
Ant? AMT
MrBlobby is a TT
Lunge
TiRed
BikeBouy

Note to self, work harder to make it onto next years STW new years honours racers list.

(Always pick a category that fast people don't enter)

MrsTHtobe was a national 24hr MTB champion (as part of a team of 4 ladies)

That they were the only team in the category matters little to her...

If only 😳

I finished off a club ride with one of our lads who's quick and I could just hang on, blowing out of every orifice, while he was cruising along chatting. Went to the crit series in Colne a week or two later where he was in the open race and he was at the back clinging on trying not to be lapped. Then the fast guys had their race - they were visibly quicker again. These were the semi-pro and low level pro riders so goodness knows what the top level guys are like.

Used to be as a junior but certainly not now. If I quit rugby, drop a few stone of muscle and 'train' on the bike I could probably get some decent race pace back in my legs. Right now I'm content smashing people up hills and then watch them go back past me at the top while I'm hanging out of my arse recovering from the oxygen debt. I suit more power based disciplines these days.

binners

you have misread fast and that was mean

I have beaten Greg Lemond, Alain Prost, Manon Carpenter in actual races.

I had a gold medal from a Welsh Champs cx race.

Third in a 24/12 vets category.

Fourth in a British National hillclimb.

Nominated for Welsh SPOTY as part of a team.

There's a little more detail that would make me look a lot slower but I'm not telling... 😆

Genetically I should be, as my sister won world cup Tri races and raced at 2 Olympics (both top 10 places).

There was a shortish period as a junior where i was at national level for TTing and I was once third at the junior British rowing champs in a scull.

Unfortunately beer, chips and fags took their toll on my 20s & 30s 😆

If we're going to use KOMs as proof, I've got 3 pages (though quite a few are just me and Ontor of this parish)

I have a KOM so you better listen to my tyre recommendations

I'm extremely quick...
...to talk myself out of riding in the current weather.

Not fast, but I did win a category at the Puffer this year (with a lot of help from a very talented teammate), and own a GB (age group) tri suit for long distance.

If I turn up to an actual MTB or road race I take a sound kicking though.

Finest moment on a bike? Being the fastest person around Charlie's Gravel Dash in Dorset- basically 'winning' a race that nobody else is taking very seriously!

I’m the rider that did the Delamere toboggan run in 12 parsecs.

I was the fastest Christmas tree in today's fancy dress race

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I was also the [i]only[/i] Christmas tree in today's race but that's by-the-by

I was on the podium at the really really muddy Mayhem*

* singlespeeders. There probably weren't many of us then.

Show yourself Matt B - I'm assuming 300 miles in a 12hr TT counts as quick.

I've had a few "4th" place finishes at SS races. 😆
I have raced with a British shirt on in world events in other two wheeled sports though.

I’d just like to point out that I’m not the Matt B referred to above, although I am ‘a’ Matt B...

I'm a former national number 16 at BMX, albeit about 35 years ago, in a youngsters group by virtue of the fact I went to all rounds cause my brother was half decent.

I have multiple times clocked over 55mph on steep road descents, according to Strava, which felt fairly quick at the time. This should give you an indication as to why I'm not so good at climbing... 🙂

It’s not the winning that is important, it’s the taking part that really matters. Well that’s what my teachers told me at school, so erm no, in my case.

I was under 15 Oxon and Bucks English Schools County Hill Climb Champion winning it on my Raleigh Mirage (I might have been the only one to enter)

At one point I was 13th fastest out of over 5,500 on one of the Strava segments down Sa Calobra - averaged over 32 mph over 6 miles 🙂
However, I am rubbish riding up Sa Calobra.

Rode up Mont Ventoux from Bedoin in 1:28 putting me currently 3586 /55457 which I am quite pleased with.

I've been a national champion. The trick is to find a niche within a niche. Tandem MTBO to be precise.

To be fair, there were a couple of other entries I think.

Raddogair is a monster

...and a roadie these days.

He lives a couple of miles from me and, as a result, the local Strava segments are all pretty much a race for second place.

I'm the current Tour de Berkshire winner 8)

Yes, it's an un-timed charity family fun ride 😳

I raced chris hoy and finished before he even got started so I must be quick?
Disclaimer.. it might have been a team sprint and we might have got lapped by him

What I’ve found interesting is how at a regional race you can get amoungst the top guys but you all know there are nationals riders in the area who’ll leave you for dead. Then you go to the nationals and your nationals heros are struggling for top tens and beating themselves up about it and then by good fortune you get to know a junior national champion and he’s fretting about getting a kicking at Worlds (He did get on the podium at cx world champs last year though)
No one ever feels fast enough.

Gee
Njee
DrP
Terrahawk
Ant? AMT
MrBlobby is a TT
Lunge
TiRed
BikeBouy

Raddoggair is the quickest person I know of on here; having occasionally pedalled with him, he's fast in any discipline. Gary Tompsett is no slouch either.

I managed to squeeze over the line first in the old boys category of the National MTB Marathon Championship this year at the Isle of Man, not sure how that ranks me in slogging up hills for over six hours though!

I once won a sportive 😉

[quote=esselgruntfuttock ]Can I have someone's autograph please, just in case.
I once finished 90th O/A in a summer Polaris.

Well if that's allowed I was a class winner at Polaris (I think my best o/a was 4th).

~10 years ago sweamrs and I podiumed at adventure racers although suspect aracer was higher than us. That says more about sweamrs than me though as (like many above) the trick is to find a suitable category and I certainly wouldn't have placed in male solo....

No

Peaked in about 1991 with the European dragon boat champs in Mechelen, Belgium.

I think the Swedes and Italian team beat us. Never drinking Amstel before a final again.

Has never helped with bikespeed

I once won a sportive

I 've only came 2 nd and twice third.

But when I came second it was behind a pro world champs medal winner(only track though).

My domestiques from that time whent on to rider for Europcar and Canyon PRO MTB. I just got ill and fat very quickly after those races where held.

I won 5kgs of cheese at a track meet once. Mrs Kilo and I were second open mixed team at singletrack 6 in Canada in 2016.

Bizarrely there were only two teams in the class - up on the podium every night and a prize at the end!

Mrs Kilo has won money (cold, filthy cash) in tt's, mtb races, adventure races and half ironman races - I have not.

I spent the best part of 2 decades getting paid (less than minimum wage) to race my bike, and subsequently getting my head kicked in by a long procession of much faster riders on their way to greater things. So where does that put me, in this thread, or the slow one?

I describe myself as “brisk for age”. A few Strava KOM’s but that’s all.