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I overtook this guy off road coming off Drum Mountain
it is true he is fatter than me so went a little faster. It was bowling green smooth grass with no reference point to note your speed until we broke and then you realised the speed you were doing. Not scarry till we tried to stop
77mph during a race on closed roads - off the top of the col du galibier, heading towards a nice finish up alpe d'huez.
It's amazing what a punture on a climb can make you do on a descent!
If you look at this thread you will notice a gradual increase in the speeds being posted. I fully expect someone to have done 120mph by page 3.
61mph on road bike from blaneau festineog. 5 of us drafting down it was effing scary.
Got a GPS track somewhere proving I went over Mach 1 uphill on the HT. Must have purged it from Everytrail. Must be somewhere around.
Failing that, ca.52mph on road bike on hill down towards Guildford.
And 54kph on a really hot sticky freshly laid tarmac near Mezica in Slovenia (and everyone got face full of stones from the guy in front).
77[i]mph[/i]???
faster than sean yates' "record" :-/
452mph on the Euston Road. Them Dahon's are wicked fast, and I was fully tucked in so, yeah, I'm sure it's accurate. My mate said he saw the speedo on an S-Class he was overtaking and that said 449mph, and then I overtook him, so I reckon my speedo is bob on.
Really stable at that speed, but the need for a 265-tooth chainring means there's not a lot of ground clearance.
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104 kph = 64mph on my road bike coming down B5106 Gyffin Hill into Conwy 😯 according to sportstracker following a motorbike scarred the life out of me as I was approaching a sharp right hander and had to take evasive action up St Agnes rd.
😆 ok on left handers though.
I'm waiting to page 3 to post mine. 🙂 It will give me a chance to think up some fantastic anecdote to go with it.
Doing about 45mph downhill into Humshaugh village in Northumberland on a Ridgeback hardtail on the road, I tried to increase speed to beat the record but it resulted in me pulling a wheelie which put me off as it would be dangerous.
Some SERIOUS bullshit on this thread
nickf - Member
452mph on the Euston Road. Them Dahon's are wicked fast, and I was fully tucked in so, yeah, I'm sure it's accurate. My mate said he saw the speedo on an S-Class he was overtaking and that said 449mph, and then I overtook him, so I reckon my speedo is bob on.Really stable at that speed, but the need for a 265-tooth chainring means there's not a lot of ground clearance.
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Genuine ROFL
72kph on the mtb whilst on tarmac in the Brecons.
Gave my fellow girlies a hell of a fright. 😯
LOL at some of the speeds stated.
Roughly 40 down from Chunal to Glossop, poo scary when wet.
i tried for years to "break" the 50 mph barrier, best i managed was an indicated 49.9mph, on the drops, with a tailwind.
until the time i rode the A689 from alston to bishop auckland,
62mph according to the cateye, on an mtb with no rear brake, sitting bolt upright. (strong tailwind though)
the thing is, i thought i was 'only' doing about 45 or so, so i could probably have gone faster if id been a bit more aero, or went back on a road bike.
its the drop down towards the nenthead lead mining centre, listed as 14% gradient.
oh, and it was probably the biggest buzz of my cycling life.
i was descending the hill from westbury white horse (on the road) on my cannondale f800.as i got to the t junction at the bottom and turned right,i heard a car horn beeping me.as i looked round a car driver who had been following me downhill stuck his head out of the window and said that he had clocked me doing 52 mph down the hill. (i cannot confirm that myself as i didn't have a cycle computer) i just gave him the thumbs up sign and continued home. 😀
i've only just got a cycle computer, but i managed 36mph the other day in edinburgh without pedalling 🙂
104 kph = 64mph on my road bike coming down B5106 Gyffin Hill into Conwy according to sportstracker following a motorbike scarred the life out of me as I was approaching a sharp right hander and had to take evasive action up St Agnes rd.
😳 Thinking about it I rather doubt that now, although sportstracker gives you the average speed and fastest it does seem OTT.
54mph on the road down into Hawes from Greenside. Really steep section at the top made me think I was going to come off & die!
Sometimes I barely need touching, but luckily I have an understanding partner.
Ok it was at the end of my usual training ride ( 6 cols before breakfast) with Paolo Salvodelli. We were just coming off a very misty croix de fer when he bet me I couldn't beat him downhill. I hit 120mph overtaking him just before the last hairpin, I was so scared I had to put both hands on the bars.
To be fair there was a tailwind and my hardtail did have slicks.
no way on earth you could do 64mph down Gyffin!
Ok it was at the end of my usual training ride ( 6 cols before breakfast) with Paolo Salvodelli. We were just coming off a very misty croix de fer when he bet me I couldn't beat him downhill. I hit 120mph overtaking him just before the last hairpin, I was so scared I had to put both hands on the bars.
To be fair there was a tailwind and my hardtail did have slicks.
That's utter bull**** - Paulo reckons he was only cruising, so when you went for the corner he just dropped a cog and took you mid-bend as VTEC kicked in, doing 147. He would have gone faster but he was on full opposite lock at the time, just powersliding his way through.
46mph coming down the road from Dumyat, near Stirling. Felt ok, until I started considering braking and then woke up in a ditch. The road outside my parents' house used to be notorious for the police stopping kids coming down from the school at the top. I can't say I ever managed more than 32mph on that one.
Barbury Castle, south of Swindon. Regularly used to ride up there in the morning before work, on my 1979 Holdsworth Special. Sit on the old hill fort and smoke a fag and then come back down the road at 60 - 65mph.
Road bike + spokey dokeys x 42mph = shit pants
58mph coming off dart moor on my way from le to log. Hardtail mtb with road tires. Only got up to about 45 since.
43.7mph chunal to glossop on mtb.
andy i know that descent from barbury castle,it is quite a good one to get some speed on (haven't got anywhere near 65 mph though,only have a mountain bike).
56 to 58 seems to be the absolute terminal speed on a road bike according to my Garmin gps. Cold Fell descent to Ennerdale Bridge is a favourite with a couple of jumps on the way down. +1 for Kirkstone Pass (North Side) + I recall dodging a crashed bike on the Fred Whitton in 2008! The poor sod who came off went over the drystone wall, very lucky escape for him. North side of Newlands Pass not quite as fast, but the acceleration is awesome and you are into some heavily committed turns at the bottom.
Do them before you get too old!
Warp speed, so there suckers 8) 8) 8)
racefaceec90 you need to start from past the cafe and really crank it up a bit on a roadbike. The acceleration down the first steep bit is terrifying the first time you do it. Hope to god no cars coming up. If I did it now I'd need someone with a phone to hold the traffic up.
And to think one night after a few "smokes" we unclipped the canti's on our mountain bikes before doing it. 😯
47.9 mph on the turbo trainer the other night. man i freaked out. 😯
🙂
Over 50 on my recumbent. Feels like flying a fighter jet with your ar$e only a foot of the ground. Bends are interesting at this speed as you feel yourself being compressed down into the seat. I ran out of bottle the last time & won't be doing this again 😆
racing_ralph - Member
Some SERIOUS bullshit on this thread
Aren't you aware that this is the 'Olympian and Record Breaker' section of the forum?
48.6mph coming down Billinge Hill on my road bike, wacking my load. 😀
i got upto 60ishkph on my road bike - i could have gone faster, but i was terrified.
at that speed i'm just aiming at the blurry grey bit inbetween the 2 blurry green bits.
59.5mph in mid-Wales on my roadbike (Litespeed Sirius, now sadly deceased 🙁 ) during a Sportive. When I checked my speed and saw that I was GUTTED that I didn't get 60mph.
Was expecting a new top speed in the Alps when I rode La Marmotte, but there was a head wind coming up the descent off the Galibier so I didn't even hit 50mph.
Not sure of fastest speed as normally more interested in where I'm going at speed. In FOD there is a rough fire road decent by the side or FODCA trail that leads to old bridge which is muddy and has 4 inch plus potholes on it and glanced I was hitting 40k plus before I hit it. Must have been quite fast as the people pushing up it scattered when they saw me! LOL
Road bike its about 40mph but the decent has a sharp 90 corner at the bottom or sure I would hit 50 but have only manged to have the guts to get round it at 32 so far.
Not much in the way of evidence in this thread. I regularly hit 45 MPH on the road bike but I can't seem to get much faster.
This was last sundays club run on my cyclocross bike with slicks.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/62650299
Hope to hit a recorded 50MPH this season and I'm sure it will come with time. There was a great descent on the Tour of Pembrokeshire last season which would have been perfect. Too many bends or poor quality surfaces on the descents around Mid Wales to really hit those speeds though.
Regarding confidence on 700c 23mm tyres. I felt the same originally but you soon grow to trust the road bike and the drops. There's probably more rubber in contact with the road on a 700c road tyre than there is on a 26" 2.2 MTB tyre.
Anyway lets see those GPS logs for these silly speeds 🙂
44mph on a road downhill at about 03:30am, en route to Dover doing London-Paris in 24hrs. Only realised at a stop that the 'max' reading had that. Good job it was dark or I'd have cacked myself if I'd known I was going that fast! 37mph off-road on a long straight track on the Marlborough Downs - nice dust plume 😀