I know there are many people on here that have gone much faster (there was a thread ages ago on it), but for me it’s a personal achievement. For whatever reason (probably lack of real big hills and/or poor conditions on previous attempts) I’d never cracked 50mph before today. Over 45 many times, 48 point something has been done a good handful of times too. But never over 50.
So today, down Stanford Bank in North Worcestershire on my road bike, I saw 50.1mph come up on my Garmin and I was thrilled! This was a solo effort incidentally, maybe a chaingang down there would push that number a fair bit higher…
Thrilled to bits, and now off for a shower!
The funny thing is, that on my current road bike 50mph actually seemed a bit of a non event as it was so rock steady and well behaved. My last road bike would start getting flighty above 40mph, and above 45 would shake its head at any opportunity!