highest speed?

[Karlt]

GC and Strava have often reported spurious max speed, a quick scan of the recorded speed graph usually proves it; i.e typically the max speed on the graph will be 30mph after a gradual build up and not the 50+mph reported !

Graph shows the same thing - 35, 41, 45 then 52.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Using an accurately set Avocet 40 (presumably some of you remember those), just over 60MPH down East Chevin, with a good, unbroken, approach
That said, it's probably the most scared I've ever been on a bike, with that broken road-surface of the time, & the concealed car-parks joining the road
Plus, the tears streaming from my eyes, despite sunglasses
I was glad to start braking, as I crossed Otley bypass

Last years 'Tour de Yorkshire' climbed it

49.5mph, I hit 40+ on every ride but that's Sheffield and the Peak District hills for you.

@stephec 54mph down Winnats is crazy! I'm a fearless descender usually but it's so steep and with the cattle grids at the bottom it's the one descent I've stayed well below 40mph on. Well that and the hairpins on Ewden bank!

Winnats is scary, going down it

Ewden Bank is a swine too, wasn't it Tom Boonan, who ran out of road a few years ago, on Tour of Britain(?) & had to go onto that farm-track on the hairpin??
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4424894


After passing the farm, which invariably has 'deposits' on the road surface, & passing the 1-in-4 sign (I know it actually reads 25%, but this is Britain), you can see the ascending section of the road, after bridge, through the trees
Whether you cross Mortimer Road, to give it its true name, or 'The Strines' as it's also known (which came first, the naming of the Inn, or the nickname??)



Here I am climbing it, circa 1991-1992
That bike, had a truly horrendous bottom gear (false 'macho pride', of the time) 42 x 21



Slight digression, sorry
With regard to the area, in another sport;
I've ran the 'Bromhead Chase' a couple of times http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/races.php?id=4184 (3.5 miles/800+ feet of ascent - most of it in roughly a mile!)
It turns at the Trig-point on the hill top, & you're looking down at the high-point of the road http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4161804
Before dropping rapidly back down, to cross Ewden Beck, & finishing at Broomhead Hall
I think, my fastest time is just south of 34minutes for that race
To put that terrain into context, my best ParkRun time (3.1 miles) is 21:04, & my best 5 mile (road) time is 35:53 (including going up Wentbridge Cutting)

Fast enough to set the speed cameras off, coming down from Junction 24, M62(Ainley Top) down to Elland on this
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Again, the 'Autobahn', as I've heard it called is a fast descent, getting sucked along by passing traffic
Coming back up is a drag though

 

[classic33]

Again, the 'Autobahn', as I've heard it called is a fast descent, getting sucked along by passing traffic
Coming back up is a drag though

Around the second speed camera, I looked back and there's two lanes of traffic behind me.
Unable to pass due to the speed camera's.

Now if I could only manage the same up it, I'd be doing well.