Fastest you've been on your bike?
- Thread starter bluezelos
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Nibor
Bewildered
- Location
- Accrington
I once did 37mph on my brompton
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
You've done that too? I think dry stone walls have magnetic properties.
iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
https://www.strava.com/segments/4531825
https://www.strava.com/activities/190709624#4479318343
Records 78.8kph for the descent, GPS recorded 88.9 kph max.
https://www.strava.com/activities/190709624#4479318343
Records 78.8kph for the descent, GPS recorded 88.9 kph max.
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A good milestone ticked off, but it puts it into perspective when you consider the competition record for 10 miles is 16 mins 35 seconds!
rugby bloke
Veteran
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Feeling very inadequate looking at these speeds. I have just had a look at the maximum speeds when I was in the mountains in Spain and both days its around 34 mph. Sad to say I thought we had properly opened the pipes on the descents ! My only excuse is that the descents were quite twisty and technical ...
johnblack
Über Member
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
Funnily enough I guessed it would have been descending from a climb in the Alps but a quick check on Strava confirms my lack of skills on the downhill as I never broke the 40mph mark. However on a local, pretty innocuous descent I get up to just below 45mph.
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
In my late middle age I've topped 50mph on all my recumbents, AZUB-4 recumbent bike, with front fairing, ICE QNT trike, with the same fairing, Hase Kettwiesel trike, again with the fairing and a naked Catrike Trail, yet another trike. In no case did I get much over 50mph, because, having seen the 50, I touched the brakes. In all cases I was going down a goodly hill. On the AZUB and Kettwiesel I had a tail wind, the other two were on steeper hills.
These days I'm backing off if I top 40mph.
We tend, in these threads to disregard the risks, but 50mph with your bottom 8 inches off the road is seriously quick. Hitting anything is likely to be terminal, even feet first! You need to:-
1. Know the road, in that there are no junctions or drives that something can turn out of having seriously misjudged your speed.
2. Know that the surface is in good condition.
3. Know your bike/trike and how it reacts to braking at that kind of speed.
On a bike and especially an upright, with all that extra drag compared to a recumbent, you have to remember that a speed wobble could be your downfall, literally.
Now nearing 70 I take it a lot easier. Which is my excuse for total lack of speed, anywhere.
These days I'm backing off if I top 40mph.
We tend, in these threads to disregard the risks, but 50mph with your bottom 8 inches off the road is seriously quick. Hitting anything is likely to be terminal, even feet first! You need to:-
1. Know the road, in that there are no junctions or drives that something can turn out of having seriously misjudged your speed.
2. Know that the surface is in good condition.
3. Know your bike/trike and how it reacts to braking at that kind of speed.
On a bike and especially an upright, with all that extra drag compared to a recumbent, you have to remember that a speed wobble could be your downfall, literally.
Now nearing 70 I take it a lot easier. Which is my excuse for total lack of speed, anywhere.
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Vantage
Carbon fibre... LMAO!!!
- Location
- Behind everyone else, Bolton
According to an old Cateye computer, I once did 300mph. I suppose there's the slim chance it might've been wrong...
I did record a very high speed on my bike computer once, but then I did have two wheel magnets on the wheel.
(I was catching up from the day before when my computer had stopped working on my regular commute, so installed a second magnet to catch up)
winjim
Smash the cistern
It was a bit hurty.Ouch
The rider in front had rather inconsiderately sprawled herself and her bike across the road so as I hit them my bike came to a sudden stop, but I carried on going. My bike was fine, I ended up in hospital whereas she was unhurt but her bike was knackered. So I call it a draw.
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
50mph once. Now I am older, more sensible (Cowardly) and brittle 30 is enough for me. Descending at high speed is actually quite knackering, I find it hard on the shoulders, arms and wrists and the concentration level is draining.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
That's the most dangerous thing about descents once you get reasonably confident. Plenty of 50mph descents around here with the right wind direction. As you say, the danger is cars seeing you and assuming cyclist=slow when actually I'm going at least as fast as the traffic
Fwiw, fastest is 56mph off the North side of Holme Moss. It's about half a mile straight of 12%. Hairpins at the bottom are a bit disconcerting though
