highest speed?

[ColinJ]

Still the same as it was last time we did this, and the time before ...!

I am unlikely to beat it in this country because I am not heavy enough now to overcome wind resistance as well as I used to, and my highest gears are too low to pedal at those speeds. A long steep downhill would do it but I am too cautious on that kind of hill.

 

[uclown2002]

52mph IIRC

 

[paul04]

45mph, Had a mad weekend where I went on more or less every hill in Manchester trying to see how fast I could go.

 

[Donger]

...... If I found a suitable straight road I'd try going for 50, but I just don't trust the corners and road surfaces around here!

A good point that nobody else seems to have made. I would never even think of going above 30mph unless I knew for certain what the road surface ahead was like. I've done some audaxes and group rides where some of the young alpha male types have just taken off downhill like **** off a shovel. They can't have known what the surface was going to be like, and many of them can't even have known where the road ahead went beyond the next corner or where the next junction or hazard was. Ambulances have been involved. The road up/down my best local hill (Frocester Hill) has just been re-surfaced, and I know it like the back of my hand, so I sometimes do about 33-35mph down there - possibly a little more on the straight bit at the bottom, but I'd be too scared to take my eyes off the road and look at the speedo! If anyone is driving close behind me, though, I slow right down until they have passed me. What could a car driver possibly do if you hit a bump and came off right in front of him? Or had to swerve around a pothole just as he was overtaking you? An interesting thread, but perhaps not the sort of thing that you want to encourage your kids to get up to.

 

[Donger]

also managed to cycle below the sea by 3 feet so i had to dry the bottom bracket out when i got home and the shoes are stuffed with newspaper!
Cheers Ed

Did you cycle off the end of a pier?

 

[mrvandango]

A mere 44.1 here, but it got a tad bumpy so I stopped trying. I hit 35+ a couple of times a day, as my commute is up and over a fairly steep hill both ways.

 

[fossala]

A mere 44.1 here, but it got a tad bumpy so I stopped trying. I hit 35+ a couple of times a day, as my commute is up and over a fairly steep hill both ways.

Same here, I hit 40mph+ everyday but that's just how you roll if you live in Cornwall.

 

[HovR]

The road up/down my best local hill (Frocester Hill) has just been re-surfaced, and I know it like the back of my hand, so I sometimes do about 33-35mph down there - possibly a little more on the straight bit at the bottom, but I'd be too scared to take my eyes off the road and look at the speedo!

You make a good point about looking at the speedo. I took mine off as I found it was distracting at higher speeds. I'd much rather concentrate on staying on the bike whilst I'm out riding, and worry about max speeds looking at Strava when I home!

 

[raleighnut]

Try googling Guy Martin at Pendine sands

 

[G3CWI]

Ahh this old chestnut again.

 

[Dave 123]

The same question/thread has been asked many times. But no harm in a bit of willy waving

49.1mph heading north down Devils Dyke in Sussex.

There's no need for that, put it away!

 

[Dave 123]

49.7 on Ventoux.

Up or down?

 

[stephec]

54mph down Winnats Pass about 15 years ago, it's unlikely I'll ever beat it.

 

[fossyant]

The same question/thread has been asked many times. But no harm in a bit of willy waving

49.1mph heading north down Devils Dyke in Sussex.

Slow coach. A smidgeon over 60 mph descending past Swallow Falls in N. Wales about 5 of us together. Similar speeds coming off Snae Fell on the IOM Mountain TT. 55mph more locally off Woodhead.

 

[fossyant]

54mph down Winnats Pass about 15 years ago, it's unlikely I'll ever beat it.

That's nuts. It's like a gravity hole !!