So on a flat road, sprinting as hard as you can, how fast have you been? Personally have no idea but I'm interested.
About 30mph (road bike) - but then I'm fat, slow and honest.
I hit 52kph going down a tarmac hill towing my trailer on my inbred- rather irresponsibility overtaking cars.
Much fun.
thats cheating using a hill
thats cheating using a hill
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here we go i love these threads.
fast enough to overtake a big tractor at full chat, in the days before compact drive chainsets, spinning my 48 ring, rumbling along on 2.1 smokes
Around 30 maybe a bit over on the tandem on 36 /11 top gear and 2.3 tyres. Absolutly flat out sprint
dunno, but have constantly tried to set off a speed camera on a slow decline (canonbury rd, highbury and islington)
never accomplished it to my disappointment,
has anyone ever set off a speed camera?
fast enough to overtake a big tractor at full chat, in the days before compact drive chainsets, spinning my 48 ring, rumbling along on 2.1 smokes
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Can break the speed limit on road bike, cannot on MTB - well perhaps for a nano second.
Downhill.
48.2 mph off road though GPS to prove it we did not realise how fast we were going till we had to break for a wall and all shredded our brakes!!!
50 +on road - very scary
Absolutely no idea.
I've rode 35mph on the flat on a road bike, with a slight tail wind. It feels like yer flying, track people do this for ages...
45mph down hill on the road 😉
more than 28mph but thats all i know ...
simply because ive averaged more than 28 in a 10TT
ive been silly fast on a hill but that doesnt count ...
has anyone ever set off a speed camera?has anyone ever set off a speed camera?
No - but I reckon it's more a problem of radar cross section than speed. Must get round to making myself a radar reflector (there's a camera on the flat after a downhill I reckon I can do 35mph past with the wind in the right direction).
We set off one of those radar triggered 30 mph illuminated signs but we were not able to set off a gatso
Mach 4.2
cheers
Glupton
There's one of those 30 signs I can consistently set off just down the road. Crucially the trigger speed is also a tad lower for those.
not the fastest (because this thread's been on before) but 72kph on a hardtail heading north on the Kjoler (Iceland) with full panniers and a howling gale behind. The bike was bouncing like **** and I felt like a trail god for 10 minutes (that is if trail gods ever feel like they've s**t themselves?)
38mph when pulling through for a turn at the end of a reliability trial.
59mph somewhere in the peaks going down a hill..
I seem to remember getting and holding on my bike computer 31mph for about half a mile on a road bike. TBTH it was after a slight descent that got me over 30+ but my own power that kept me there. Down a hill on a road which I knew had no junctions I hit 63mph on my RB. I've also hit 55 on road on a rigid MTB coming off the Roches towards Leek.
This doesn't allow for inaccuracy of computer calibration but I feel certain error is no more than +\- 10% and I think closer to +\-5%.
I hit 42mph on an Marin Palisades Trail when I was about 15 going along a flat road on the NY moors near Scaling Damn, furious wind blowing behind - mate on a road bike hit 52mph
49.8MPH down River Hill in Sevenoaks on my road bike 😯
52mph on roadbike
54kph on HT
1031.9km/h uphill according to a GPS track I recorded 😉
http://www.everytrail.com/fullscreen.php?trip_id=132581 (might need to hit the Trip Stats button)
PS it used to say 225.3km/h before Everytrail changed their processing/filtering.
8)
Come to think of it I once did 47mph through the golf course at Innerleithen.
41 mph on a run down to the chalet in the french alps, on a dh rig. I didn't believe it when I was shown and insisted on a re run the next day, It was correct. It was at the end of the week and the center strip of the tyre was bald as you like. Overtaking cars on some sections 😯
38mph over a flat sprint roughly 1/4 mile and 60 down Dunmail into Grassmere.
I now have bigger gears then when i did this 😆
48 mph down the hill from Nant-yr-arian to home on Heckler with 2.4 tyres, keeping an eye out for sheep!
$3 nanomascerls
once coming out of cardiff in heavy traffic on a 4 lane wide section of raod that becomes 6 lanes we needed to turn right i was riding with the welsh road race champ and last years champ,we was single file and doing just over 40 mph i was just hanging on to the back,as we overtook many cars, looking at motorists faces as we went past them at over 40 on bikes on the flat was a real picture,i can still remember one lady looking up then at her speedo then back at me as we went past, o to be young and fit again
how did you manage to see someone look at her speedo and concentrate on going 40mph? skills.
I did a 20.58 for a 10 mile TT, average over 30mph i think, and when I lived in Kent I went down Delting Hill at topped 68MPH.
Beat that ; )
49.8 mph down the otherside of Ditchling Beacon during the London to Brighton bike ride 2009
Un verified 56 mph down into Eastbourne, past the Eastbourne Downs Golf Club on the A259
Overtook a bloke on a moped once, the effort nearly killed me but the look on his face...
54mph road bike, down hill...VERY scary
Rochey - Are you sure that 20.58 for a 10TT gives you an above 30mph average?
82kmh. Self Propelled off road.
Well, [i]I[/i] ate the pies and gravity acted on [i]my[/i] body so in essence, its all my own work......
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)
35mph on the flat, verified by a motorbike riding alongside. SS 52:16, 1.3 inch slicks.
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 😯
32mph - about 130ish rpm and that was my gear maxed out...
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
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. 😆
50.2 mph downhill on my road bike
Dont have a speedo on my MTB
Do flat roads exist ? Around here they are either up or down.
50+mph....! On a fully faired recumbent down the Avenue in Southampton. Woooooo!
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.
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 8)
Last proper downhill fire road before the end!
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!
20mins for an average of 30 mph for a 10 mile tt
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 [url= http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=55.87134,-4.187376&spn=0.001282,0.001633&t=h&z=19 ]here[/url] 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 🙂
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 tt
You 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 😉
Absolutely no idea.
Oh come on, this thread was MADE for you 😉
AndyP - MemberMach 4.2
cheers
Glupton
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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.)
Look closer people.
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.
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!
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.
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".
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
I'm Surrounded By Idiots - Premier MemberLook closer people.
Well, if you will insist on changing your 'screen name' (or whatever it's called) every three months....
Everyone has [i]some[/i] 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?
JW - if you cant be bothered to read the thread what hope is there of having a decent conversation with you?
I'm Surrounded By Idiots - Premier MemberCome to think of it I once did 47mph through the golf course at Innerleithen.
Sorry G, missed that post.
Was there golf going on? 😯
Yes, but there is a road goes through the middle of the course. Flat too.
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.
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?
38mph down a hill.. probably about 20 on flat, I'm pretty unfit haha.
Never really checked on the flat, but got 50mph on a tarmac downhill on my Inbred when in NZ.
Fastest Inbred in the south!
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.
i managed to do 34mph on my mtb (after coming down a hill admittedly.)but kept it up for around 20 seconds,chasing a car. but one time on my f800 i had descended the westbury white horse road to the junction.just as i had turned right,i heard a car beep me.i looked round and the guy leant his head out of the window and said that he was clocking me at 51mph (i didn't have a speedo at this time).to be honest i think that i was only doing about 45mph (i think car speedos are usually out by 10%) but i was well chuffed. 😀