highest speed?

[fossyant]

I didn't have any kids then.

I didn't know it had a cattle grid at the bottom either.

I'm glad you have kids now. Hitting the cattle grid at speed won't do the family jewels any good !!

 

[fossyant]

Useful at 60 in low cloud though
EDIT 150? try over 200 like they do

The biggest issue was the just after the start in Douglas. We were off at about 6ish in the morning, so there were a few locals wandering over the roads to collect papers from the newsagent. I'd rolled off the start ramp, but it's a 40mph plus descent to the first turn.. Cue the local wandering over the 'closed' road... Oi oi...... whoosh !!!

 

[hopless500]

42mph coming down a BIIIGGGG hill in Asia

 

[Poacher]

43.6mph yesterday. Downhill on the B1206 between Brigg Road and Deepdale in North Lincolnshire. Nice and straight with a gradual descent to built up speed before a sudden descent.

A hill in Lincolnshire? Come off it - Lincolnshire's flat as a pancake, everyone knows that!

 

[robjh]

About 47mph in Wales on a forum ride. But I got a nasty case of speed wobble/shimmy in the Cotswolds at 42mph last year and that has made me more cautious about fast descents since.

 

[marcusjb]

No matter how fast you think you're going - nothing compared to the pros (they do have the advantage off being able to use the full road and know there's not cars etc.). My fastest ever was on Tourmalet and is still around 20kph slower than the pros can go down mountains.

 

[young Ed]

No matter how fast you think you're going - nothing compared to the pros (they do have the advantage off being able to use the full road and know there's not cars etc.). My fastest ever was on Tourmalet and is still around 20kph slower than the pros can go down mountains.

how fast do the pros go?
i reckon my flat bar hybrid has the edge downhill as it is heavier!
bet wiggins, froome etc go faster uphill than me down hill
Cheers Ed

 

[vernon]

A hill in Lincolnshire? Come off it - Lincolnshire's flat as a pancake, everyone knows that!

I know a member of the Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Team.

 

[JoeyB]

76kph down hill....returning to Calais from Boulogne

 

[young Ed]

I know a member of the Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Team.

he drinks lots of tea doesn't he? sorry, only joking
Cheers Ed

 

[speccy1]

Mine was coming off the moor from Princetown to Yelverton. I was a bit slower on the way up......

52 doing that one. I live close to there so do it on a regular basis, it`s a great downhill stretch!

 

[Poacher]

I know a member of the Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Team.

I once helped someone with their application to join the Lincoln Mountaineering Club. Part of the proof of suitability was a 30 mile walk in the hilly bits of Derbyshire. I haven't walked that far since! (Came close with an epic ramble in Madeira a couple of years ago, though. Managed 54 miles in just under 18 hours when I was 20, which is now unthinkable.)

 

[Kestevan]

Fast enough to set the speed cameras off, coming down from Junction 24, M62(Ainley Top) down to Elland....

Do that descent nearly every day. Still haven't managed to set the camera off.... fastest I've clocked is 53.7 - but that's on a "proper" bike

 

[KneesUp]

41 mph drafting a bus in to Sheffield from Castleton, many years ago. A singularly foolish thing to do given the road is narrow and twisty and I was only a few feet away. I remember braking so as not to get even closer. I was young, and survived.

Since I started cycling again, 32mph. My gears run out there, and so did the hill. The computer recorded a max of 90-something yesterday, so someone must have borrowed my bike and returned it whilst I was at work.

 

[Sharky]

I clocked 64mph going down Wrotham Hill on my commute to work!

But before you say wow!

The previous week, my computer refused to work, so on two of my commutes, I did not record any miles. So when I worked out what was wrong, it niggled me that I was missing 60 miles from my annual log. So for two days, I rode with an extra wheel magnet to catch up.

Keith