[Closed] Anyone on here properly fast?

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.

ghostlymachine - Member
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 suspect you were / are probably the fastest here by a long way.

2 KOMs, one a random combo of tarmac and landrover track that was probably 100% due to bike choice, and one was the first 30km of a Sportive, which everyone else paced for the remaining 120km 😳

I 'won' the 65km category in one of the old Selkirk MTB marathons, because all the fast boys were doing the 85km (so was I, until I dropped out and completed the 65km instead. So proud).

I rode the HT550 before bikepacking or the HT550 was a thing. Except I took 16 days, not 4 😉

Have spent the entire festive break looking at my wardrobe of technical waterproof gear, and the shitty weather forecasts, and deciding to stay indoors. 😳

I am as fussy as a pro though 8)

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.

Very much this. I'm a reasonable regional rider but quite happy to get my head kicked in at national level, and I know damn well that those national winners get a kicking by the big boys.

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?

Absolutely the fastest!

A winter spin class I did I sat next to a professional road rider; she tried to get me to come out for a ride a few times but unfortunately that year I had a host of punctures.

Properly last on a few occasions, and I've got the results sheets to prove it

Gee
Njee
DrP
Terrahawk
Ant? AMT
MrBlobby is a TT
Lunge
TiRed
BikeBouy used to road race alot

Swoon.... 😆

Featured in the ‘fastest’ AND the ‘are you good looking’ thread (though granted, I did submit myself in that one!)..
2017 FTW 😉

DrP

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.

I see I’ve been mentioned, without my permission I might add 😆

Yes, semi pro BITD for a mediocre trade team. Spent most of my time riding Colnago Masters (yip, that long ago) around the hills and dales. I did the MilkRace (for its last couple of years, 93 being the last) and plenty of other Cat1/2 road races.
TBH I wasn’t that fast, yes I could go on for yonks on the front so think of my style more like Jens or Kyri.. hang on dragging the team around until either it went up bloody hard or we’d hit the last 10k and the pretty boys got all excited.
I got bored of not getting any glory (neither did the sprinter boys) so the owner folded the team not long after me and another mate left (I already had a proper job, was finding it hard to both train/race and work) mate went off to Italy to join another team and still lives out in Florence.. he did better out there.

I ditched bikes for 10years concentrating on my love of sailing, then mateyboy came over to stay and brought his old Master for me to go out on a ride, I wasn’t about to get back into biking because I honestly hated the thought of slinging a leg over another bike.. I’d really lost the love of it. But we headed for the Downs and I quite enjoyed it so not long after bought an Orca and used that for training for sailing.. and then I kinda missed riding so took it back up again.. the rest is history best forgotten.

Fast ? Nope.. but a few years ago I surprised myself on more than one occasion. Now, we’ll im off the bike again. Kinda lost the love so taking time out and concentrating on trail running.

118th out of 300 at the Robin hood off road duathlon ?

I did win 3 gold medals at Adwick swimming club when I was 12 though..

I've made the list 😆

I'm a pretty decent club level racer, trouble the podium at the smaller open events, but there are a few local riders who are much faster than me. I quite regularly come up against the top 2 men from this years national 25 who make me feel rather pedestrian. Oh and the second place lady who is also very fast indeed.

The faster you get the faster the riders you come up against.