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About 45mph on road, no idea off road really. I would guess 25-30.
some right bullshit on here
39 ish going down from sharnyford to todmorden, scary as you like as well
What I don't get, is on Cox Tor I can it 50mph pretty regularly but my mate will pull another 5-10 mph on me every time. I'm off the brakes and tucked as tight as I can.
Can the bike make that much odds?
Think I got to 78kmh on a loaded tourer before I had to slow down (carefully) out of sheer terror. Off road? About 15mph I reckon 🙂
That video is amazing by the way 🙂
is he a fat knacker?
On the roaad bike 102.8 km/h down col de braus in Provence, France.
52mph down butser hill near QE park in hampshire....basically a long grassy ski slope...great fun, i reckon could have gone evenfaster if i didnt slow down too much going through the gate third of the way down...a good un for strava?
is he a fat knacker?
not really. skinny shoulders so probably more aerodynamic than me.
its this segment here:
http://app.strava.com/segments/997534
I'm 23rd and well off the pace...
Apologies for not noting the swearing on the vid I posted above. Hope no one accidentally played it loudly in earshot of others.
It is funnier with the sound though!
53.something down Kirkstone pass on this years' Fred Whitton. No idea about off-road, but I wouldn't imagine I've been much over 40...
occasionally get above 50mph on the road bike. I remember doing 48 on a mtb in the early 90's but I do wonder i that was more speedo set up than actual speed.
Going fast on or offroad isn't a problem, stopping safely is. 😯
About 53mph off road in Scotland, about 43 on road (not too many hills in East Anglia).
nasher - MemberOn the roaad bike 102.8 km/h down col de braus in Provence, France.
52mph down butser hill near QE park in hampshire....basically a long grassy ski slope...great fun, i reckon could have gone evenfaster if i didnt slow down too much going through the gate third of the way down...a good un for strava?
Good effort sir! Have managed 50.9mph down there with a tailwind before now. Got 46.7mph on sunday just gone.
Both were with a mate holding the gate open halfway down.
BTW im running 46 / 12 for the gearing, but don't pedal that as there's no point!
Dibbs - Member
Going fast on or offroad isn't a problem, stopping safely is.
Very true, as my experience on Kirkstone during Hell Tri demonstrates. Road bike brakes are not that effective when you encounter a stationary car near the bottom!!!!
I haven't tried for a while, but I had a go down into Crowcombe today, bit of a headwind and there was a car coming up the hill towards me. (road descent on a MTB).
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No speedo, but I was cycling flat out down a pretty steep hill on 110" gear, on a Lo Pro. Then I hit a bump, sold the bike 2 days later and stuck to SS / fixed since.......
cycling flat out down a pretty steep hill on 110" gear
Spinning out a 90'' gear whilst in the extensions and a gust of wind hitting my trispoke caused a brown bib shorts moment this weekend...
50mph down Mastiles towards Kilnsey ..... On an Orange hardtail with 80mm Pace forks and canti brakes by Nigel Morris is the craziest I have ever seen.
My fastest was Ingleby Incline, not sure of the speed but full belt pedal from the gate and then a tuck.
Wrynose towards Ambleside is scary especially with sheep around.
Just over 60mph on an old Gazelle road bike holding onto the open window of a mates Ford Escort in the late 90's [u][i]up[/i][/u] a hill on Dartmoor near Bickleigh. It felt ridiculously fast - couldn't decide whether I was safer holding on, or letting go. I let go and managed to grab both bars again without crashing before vowing never to do anything like that again!
What sort of speeds to the World MTB Downhill top out at?
56.1 mph down into Hawes in the Dales...... years ago!
Broke the 50 barrier today 🙂
56mph down the clitheroe side of pendle last year. Didnt think I was anywhere near that speed until i looked at the odo after. Won't be doing that again.
About 105 mph.
But to be fair, I was attempting to ride (a bit drunk) down the carriage on the Edinburgh to London train about 20 years ago 🙂
My max speed on both a MTB and road bike is around 50MPH, I regularly see over 40MPH however I'm now the wrong side of 30 and find myself often thinking "what if"... someone pulls out, an animal jumps out, my tubeless fails etc etc.
I feel a lot safer descending fast on my MTB rather than road bike - maybe its the bigger tyres and brakes but on both bikes my bottle for top speed has gone.
45mph last night on a road bike
37 MPH on my old Radford Commence MTB with plastic pedals trying to get quick enough to set a Gatso off 8)
52.9mph (according to the Garmin) on a road bike.
From tonight's commute. (Road bike this time).
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According to my GPS, 86.5 mph, on my hardtail in the Peaks I may have left it switched on in the car though me thinks.
I did manage 48mph on my road bike down Billinge Hill last year though.
52.8 on the road bike (GPS) was stuck on 49.9 max for ages then broke 50 twice on the same day in Arran.
Saw 40 on the mtb in the alps heading into les lindarets (I think) but was so uneventful and easy I'm guessing I've been faster on an mtb, nothing to back that up though.
Not sure whether to set faster targets or not as I'm sure it got to my head a few times.
62mph, rigid mtb, semi loaded, A689 heading east towrds the lead mining centre at killhope in weardale.
i had a massive tailwind, dunno how fast it was, maybe 25mph.
14% gradient, long, straight, smoothish bit of road.
i made no attempt to be aero at all, as i didnt think i was going anywhere near that fast, i thought i was doing about 40.
its the steepest sustained gradient i have ridden down.
on the road bike i havent broken 50, best is 49.9mph.
off road, about 31/32mph, although naturally it felt much faster because the track was only about 6 feet wide.
59.5 for me on an old Claud Butler road bike, 20 years ago barrelling down Longridge Fell near Preston. No glasses, helmet or lycra either. Just a very stupid invincible 17 year old who has since grown up and appreciates being alive too much to repeat such pointless antics.
Still gutted after 20 years to not have made 60 🙂