Where abouts have you reached really fast speeds on a bike?
Just used a Garmin in the mountains for the first time and was surprised how slow some drops were, okay bearing in mind the roads where open but it was the corners that killed it. each days fastest was about 75kph in the dry and low 60's kph in the pouring rain. But none of these compare with 60 mph plus claims.
I did just once record just under 100kph but I cant see how I could find 25kph extra so I'm dismissing that one.
Ventoux is meant to be a place to reach crazy speeds...anyone
42mph down Battery Hill in Fairlight. On a slicked up mtb .
45mph in the lakes, on a Pugsley, we had to ride up that hill on the way back......
Fastest I have managed is 100kmh coming down the road from Hoch Fügen to Fügen in Ziilertal, Austria on my mountainbike. Absolutely sh@t myself. 😯
48.2 mph offroad down Drum mountain
Lowey overtook me - which means he weighs more than me 😉
42mph on a full rigid Univega with Tioga Factory DH 2.1s down the road at Sutton Bank when I was 16.
I've been faster on a road bike many times since, but nailing cars up the inside into the hairpin on what was left of a set of Shimano Alivio v-brake pads is a memory that I will never forget.
55mph down llanberis passvwhen I was 15in 1992. I was on my rigid marin bearvalley se with canti brakes.
No helmet. ... overtook a Mercedes, it was ace
60.6mph on the road bike coming down off jubilee tower near Lancaster, Lancashire. Helped there was a howling tailwind though 😀
Coming down I reached 75.3kph I tried everything, but it stayed glued at 75.3kph. That's off Port De bales into Luchon.
47 down a hill, Coomanaspic, in Kerry. Wasn't trying for a high speed so more is achievable on that one 😀
40mph+ is achievable for long sections down snakes pass, the problem is that even in 52-12 85rpm* is 'only' 32mph, beyond which you're tucking.
*Ok some people can pedal smoothly upto 120rpm, but at those speeds I'm not wanting to wobble much!
Coming down I reached 75.3kph I tried everything, but it stayed glued at 75.3kph. That's off Port De bales into Luchon.
That is seriously quick. I managed 72mph on a smooth road descent near Morzine. Got to the bottom and thought it felt a bit fast so I hit the top speed button on my bike computer and there it was. I didnt zero the tripmeter on the thing for two years.
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Willy-waving time?
49mph down Dunmail Raise into the 30mph limit in Grasmere. The bike would've gone faster but I bottled it.
Personal best without the (direct) aid of a motor: 120mph downwards when I used to skydive
55mph coming down the Col du Lautaret with five other lads. That was brilliant. Got 53mph in the peaks a couple weeks ago, had to ride like a hooligan to achieve it.
61.4 down billinge hill nr Wigan a couple of weeks ago, 3rd try to break into the 60's with falling shy by a tad, im done with it now 🙂
52.4mph in the Pyrenees in July.
Still some way to go, as I want to hit 100kph, but haven't found the right decent in the right weather with enough bottle yet!
70kph on a Nevis Range fire road one WC day.
35mph, something like that. *skid*
On my last race 2 weeks ago in fife I clocked 76.4kph. That looks similar towns to what I hit descending in Lanzarote in January - and that's in full tuck position.
Only 38mph for me down a fire road, that felt more than fast enough thank you.
Many many years ago (about 20!), a group of 4 of us were riding round the Trossachs, 2 had 'calibrated' computers (one was in a serious road club and the bike had been set up specifically and the computer had also been set up- he then took it on the recognised 10 mile TT course and got 10 miles on it...so he claimed it was calibrated)...anyway, we were chasing down some cars on the way into Aberfoyle and at the bottom his computer claimed 66mph.
Absolute rubbish as there was no way we were doing 66mph...we overtook every car on the way down but given most cars don't go over 30-35mph I find it impossible to believe we did 66mph.
However, due to the extreme testing he went to to ensure it was 'calibrated', I do enjoy telling the tale...utter mince but the computer did claim it.
Around 55 mph on the mountain descent to Douglas, IOM (RR bunch and solo TT). I believe Boardman topped 60 mph when he set his TT record.
There are relatively few places in the UK where you can get a long, uninterrupted descent with enough altitude loss to get really high speeds.
I agree about the Trossachs descent; don't think you would get anywhere near 66mph on that.
50mph, somewhere near Bellingham (the vomit) in Northumbria. Very rare that I get above 45 as in the UK by the time I hit that sort of speed there is a corner coming and you need to brake. Also it scares me witless. I remember this occasion because it is the only time I've gone to 50mph.
I hit 70km/h in the Ballentyne road race and still got dropped going down the hill so some people were going faster.
62mph on a descent in the Alps. Had just over 60mph on a (tailwind-assisted) descent in the Trough of Bowland once but that was terrifying - bumpier roads. The Alps were made for that sort of speeding though. We did still have the local French roadies overtaking us though then airbraking into the corners - full on tuck for the straights, sit up before the bend then whip round it and back into the tuck.
I don't really try pushing much above 50mph now unless I absolutely know the road. Can easily get well into the 40's on pretty much any road ride round here but once it starts nudging 50mph, I'll usually back it off. Old age. 😉
49.5mph down butser hill. Rigid or maybe ht back in early 90's. Chainrings were bigger back then, as was my bottle
45 mph offroad. I'm presuming it's the same descent down Drum Mountain as JY and Lowey. It's a right old laugh, that descent! The view out to sea, as you're barrelling down, cackling like a maniac, is spectacular 😀
I think I used my top gear in August 2004. Just the once mind.
This was down Newlands towards Buttermere during the Townened Challenge 2013.
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60mph down Dunmail Raise, 55mph down Semnoz towards Annecy and a few other place with fairly high speds...
Off road....
38mph off the side of Grizdale pike 😛 (the grassy bit) and 45mph off the northern side of Blencathra (Foule Crag) in the icey snow when it went a wee bit wrong!!!! 😥
OK - I did 52mph down the A361 from Mullacott Cross to Station Road in Ilfracombe - in the wet 😯
I also hit 38mph off-road, in the dry, in the Peak District somewhere near Mam Tor but I can't tell you the name of the spot 😳
50.1 mph, on a Marin Eldridge Circa 1994. Down a very steep hill on road, wind assisted. Scared witless.
68mph down Dunmail Raise according to my Garmin. The guy I was with topped out about 44mph before braking and I'd left him way behind. I was spun out, proper tucked, couldn't really see anything, bricking it and trying really hard not to brake.
Next time I'm determined to take it easy because a crash at that speed would likely be serious. Unfortunately I'm also determined to break the national speed limit on my bike so we'll see what happens!
Just checked the Garmin, it was actually 66.3mph.
87.5kph Kop Hill into Princes Risborough Dec 2013 wet, sketchy, scary.
Having bought a road bike at the start of the year I naively thought I'd easily be able to nail speeds of 60mph or something but the most I've done is 46mph and I seem to spin the gear out then, so not sure I could go much faster tbf.
62mph, recorded on a calibrated (by tyre roll out) cateye computer.
Down a 14% gradient on the A689 near alston, with serious wind assistance.
Fastest i have gone at any other time has been around 45-50mph, this felt a LOT faster.
The accuracy of the device is of course questionable.
I remember the look on a car drivers face going the other way, he looked genuinely shocked.
Fully rigid marin eldridge, semi loaded, total weight (rider, bike, kit) around 18 stone.
Wouldn't fancy it on a road bike tbh, road surface not that smooth.
197.3mph but it was on a runway (woodbridge,suffolk) and on a Suzuki Hayabusa, if it hadn't started raining halfway through the run i would have cracked the 200mph, i will be forever gutted !! 😥
44 MPH on the road bike down Ashurst Beacon near Wigan,it's fast enough when all that's 'protecting' me is lycra!
150 MPH on my FZ750,with witnesses can't say where..
107kph (66mph)in the alps, doubted it but oh showed 59mph.
56mph down the less steep side of pendle hill. didn't feel any faster than the normal early 40's that are fairly routine around these parts.
Fellow cyclist at work asked me what i would have done if one of the many sheep on this bit of road had wandered onto the tarmac. Haven't been above 40 since then.
Haven't been above 40 since then.
I feel like that most often. Though it felt a little safer in the Pyrenees!
Downloaded my Garmin data and the supposed 100km converted to 53.3mph. That said day one descending in a downpour at 39mph was a lot faster in my head.
You really need a good run out, favouring winds and no loose clothing.
They let me ride down the tumble after the TOB the other week with the team cars. Chasing OPQS with the net app bus behind was the fastest I've been in a long time. Pretty scary but good fun!
About 45mph down a hill near where I live, they're not even that big. I'd love to ride down the Burway @ the long mynd on my road bike.
47 mph on a hardtail down Ripponden Bank, and 50.2 mph down Round Ings at Scapegoat Hill on a road bike.
87 kph coming down great Dunn fell on Saturday. Was ace.
Fastest recorded was 53.1 mph on my [i]fungrel [/i]
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This is how it looked at the time, pretty ugly eh?. That's why i christened it the F'kin Ugly moNGREL, It looks very different now
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The only reason i managed 53.1 mph was the fact that i tried to brake for a corner at 45 mph and i soon had brake fade right back to the bars, i then got a speed wobble (Ti skewer - my fault) as the braking bumps on the outside of my lane shimmied through the forks which forced me to drift into the oncoming lane on one of two sweeping blind corners whilst still clinging to the bull horns, the one thing to go through my mind was [i]I'm not wearing gloves[/i] , as if that would've made any difference at 50+mph, the cessation of speed at 3.35 is due to me needing to take a few minutes to compose myself once i reached sea level, before i had to stop again a few minutes later as the adrenaline and energy slumped after climbing a teeny hill.
The fastest i've been on a bike, and possibly the second closest i've came to a stupid death (if any vehicle were to come the other way).
Did a charity ride up and down the Tumble a few times, clocked 57mph on the Garmin a couple of times - just a matter of getting as aero as I could, didn't run out of road, just could not go any faster down there.
77.5kph down the Lindis Pass in New Zealand, carrying 40kg of luggage on my Cindercone. Backed off as I was cutting a blind corner into the oncoming traffic to keep it smooth.
having spent 3 summers working in Provence I managed to get to 128kph down the north side of mtn Ventoux, the section is from ski station and its 12% for a KM and straight... never going that fast again ,properly Sh*t me up!
Fastest UK was 55mph heading into Brighton on the London-Brighton a few years ago (though 1 never checked when I road raced). Coming down the Glandon (coming past the lake) this year I had to keep touching the breaks at 50mph. Probably the fastest descent I've done in the Alps.
49 mph on the Dartmoor Classic a couple of years ago. I'm in the Midlands so the roads and hills round here mean the opportunities to get up to that sort of speed often are pretty limited.
Oddly when I've been at a much higher than usual speed it rarely feels like it. And whenever I find myself thinking "Christ that was fast" it usually isn't [i]that[/i] fast. Must be the narrowness of the roads or something.
Fastest for me was 47mpbh in Morzine this year down here:
65 going down the Tourmalet - good surface and good visibility but even more importantly a really good descender in front who i could follow down.
Fastest ive been in the UK is the String Road in Arran - the top section going towards Brodick its relatively easy to get mid 50s. Just after the fast section there is a little rise so you can scrub off a lot of that speed before the corner.
Managed 59.5 mph coming down Longridge Fell near Preston (short n steep run down the Jeffrey Hill side), with a 90 degree left and then a t-junction at the bottom. At the tender age of 16 on my dad's ancient road bike, no lid or lycra or glasses. I had to sit down for a bit at the bottom till my hands stopped shaking.
On reflection it might be the daftest thing I've ever done but I remember the adrenaline high like it was yesterday
I did 43mph without any major pedalling on the WRT in Mid Wales in May this year - Spesh Hardrock with bikepacking kit attached
It felt lovely. In hindisght I should have tried a bit harder!
52mph down from the top of Hartside in Cumbria on the Coast to Coast many many years ago on a rigid Claud Butler MTB with slicks, a rear rack and pannier.
Think I managed 48 on the FS in Hexhamshire with offroad tyres on.
Jeff
Markend, i had a 48 down that FML this year as well. the bike gets a proper wobble on, and the drainage ditches make it interesting!
75kmph down [url= http://app.strava.com/segments/1079265 ]this local segment[/url].
Just over 50 mph down Dundry Hill on the road towards Chew Magna.
Best on a MTB was on a crappy hardtail Giant on an organised cycle tour of Jordan. The road was 6-7 miles long with long sweeping curves, great visibility, good surface and no traffic - was being followed by van supporting the group who were impressed I was going over 60 kph in parts. Arrived at the bottom about 15 minutes before the rest of the group. Would love to have done that road on a road bike.
I managed 70.9mph coming down Cadair Idris in November Las year, I couldn't see anything my eyes were watering so much. I couldn't believe it when I saw the Garmin file. It's the one ride I don't delete when clearing recorded rides.
On a MTB it's probably something far tamer like mid to high 30's as I'm a) a mincer and b) not that fussed with going down hill on it, I prefer ups.
70.9
Holy crap . . .
47 mph on the Orange, Chorley Old Road dropping down from Bob Smithy to McDonalds at Midnight.
If any nutter from Johnson Fold had pulled out it would have been game over.