Highest Speed?

[Dave Carey]

40 mph downhill

 

[nickyboy]

50 down Holme Moss with a nice tailwind. Averaged 36 down snake pass for 3 miles

I'm built for downhills

 

[Hip Priest]

About 33/34 mph I expect. I'm a nervy descender, but I'm getting better.

 

[cyberknight]

This question re-appears every now and again on the forum.
Good for a little bit of willy waving

49.4mph down Devils Dyke north bound.

Yup
It depends a lot on what the hills are like and how big your cajones are, the pros can be hitting 60 mph down some of the descents on mountain stages .The maximum i ever got was 42 mph locally down a hill and i regularly hit 38 mph down my commute hill, not so fast the other way though.

 

[Sittingduck]

49.4mph according to my Garmin. Bit of a dodgy surface and bend at the bottom and it was quite a busy A road. I'll get 50> sometime this summer

 

[Cycling Dan]

37mph is my fastest so far. Not found a hill steep enough or maybe im not working hard enough.

 

[cervelo chic]

42mph on my heavy old winter bike

 

[uclown2002]

Perhaps 44-45 mph IIRC

 

[HLaB]

I reached 47.6mph down the String Road in Arran; I wouldnt be surprised if braver folk than me could get to 60mph there. The fastest Ive been this year was 38.8mph going down the Braunston Road to Oakham.
Garmin Connect says I done 48.7mph but I doubt it, it was wet all our ride and snowing at one point Garmin TC says 32.6mph (somewhere on the road from below the A1 to Empingham) that's more realistic
Edit: Had a closer look at the gps, it was here today, that'd be right, not too steep, totally straight (good visibility) and with a steep uphill to slow me down

 

[avsd]

Garmin gives me an all time record of 293.2 mph whilst commuting to work 19th Dec 2012. God bless GPS errors and computers

My fastest true speed was in the 45.8 mph coming down from Spelga in the Mourne Mountains

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

41.7mph. After finding it hadn't done my wheel bearings much good and that I'd done it on tyres that were starting to perish , I'm content not to try and top that.

When I had my wireless speedometer it showed me a reading of over 80mph while waiting at traffic lights.

 

[Herr-B]

46 mph, which is as fast as my mother in law drives down a dual carriageway!

Would have been faster but there is a sharp bend near the bottom. It also means a minute later I need the granny ring getting up the other side.

 

[Deleted member 20519]

48, I'm still trying for 50!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=delumCpmln8

 

[gavroche]

36mph and that's fast enough for me. I don't cycle for speed. If I want to go fast, I take the car, much safer.

 

[redste]

Just topped 30mph today, 30.5 according to Strava. That was quite fast enough for me thanks.