How fast do you go downhill?

[Globalti]

Usually about 46 mph on a normal Lancashire hill. I swoop down like the horsemen of the Apocalypse scattering all before me. Cows' milk turns to butter in the fields, so terrifying is the spectacle.

 

[martint235]

About 5mph!!!

The only real exception being Shooters Hill cos I know it very well so can get up to 45mph but seriously anything I don't know, I creep down. Take Bysing Wood Hill in Kent and ask @ianrauk and @rb58 what speeds I get to. I'm fairly sure I climb it faster than I go down it

 

[L Q]

Coming down the wolds towards stenigot I decided to go for it and got to 46mph and the road just turned to a pile of loose road chippings, I just prayed I didn't get a front wheel jam or I was straight off.

Since then I have bottled going downhill and 30mph is fast enough for me.

 

[busdennis]

this lads a former club mate and knows how to descend


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xm1JjOhsxE

has already stated my bottle goes at 30mph

 

[nickyboy]

this lads a former club mate and knows how to descend


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xm1JjOhsxE

has already stated my bottle goes at 30mph

I did a similar style descent off Mount Etna, about 18km all told. Not super fast as it's never more than 9% but the others I was with were tentative descenders whereas I'm all in. I got to the bottom and had time to buy a coke and a cake and eat it before they made it down. There were something like 20 hairpins and I think I got 19 right and 1 was slamming the anchors on. Still, good fun

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm going downhill fast.

 

[byegad]

Having touched/exceeded 50mph on all 4 of the recumbents I own/have owned, I can attest to the fact that 50mph is damn fast!

On a normal circular 20 mile route I use I comfortably exceed 35mph in several places and on another 40mph is easily passed every time. All of these descents have decent eye lines, no junctions for morons in tin boxes to emerge from and decent surfaces.

From my days riding upright bikes those top speeds would be a chunk slower, such is the benefit of the laid-back position.

I would encourage everybody to take it easy on strange roads and reduce the risks you are taking rather than increase the speed of any potential crash.

 

[smutchin]

The only real exception being Shooters Hill cos I know it very well so can get up to 45mph

Which side? I love the descent into Welling and can get up some pretty decent speed down there.

Take Bysing Wood Hill in Kent and ask @ianrauk and @rb58 what speeds I get to. I'm fairly sure I climb it faster than I go down it

The blind bend in the middle of that descent is the problem there - I only really let go after the bend, by which time there's not enough descent left to get up some real speed.

I did hold the KOM for the climb for a while though, back when it was part of my daily commute.

 

[martint235]

Which side? I love the descent into Welling and can get up some pretty decent speed down there.



The blind bend in the middle of that descent is the problem there - I only really let go after the bend, by which time there's not enough descent left to get up some real speed.

I did hold the KOM for the climb for a while though, back when it was part of my daily commute.

The descent into Welling. If I play it right I can maintain over 30mph all the way to my house.
The other way tends to have too much traffic on it plus someone decided to put those horrible rumble strips about half way down.

 

[smutchin]

plus someone decided to put those horrible rumble strips about half way down.

And not forgetting the traffic lights at the bottom...

 

[martint235]

And not forgetting the traffic lights at the bottom...

I have on occasion got lucky and been able to carry what speed I've had all the way down to Sun in the Sands but that is very rare.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I seem to be going downhill faster and faster as I get older.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I seem to be going downhill faster and faster as I get older.

It's downhill all the way from now on.

 

[Flyboy]

Just under 30 miles an hour , off road on single track ,

 

[Kestevan]

45+ most days on the dual carriageway on the way to work.

Top is 54mph, haven't quite managed to set off the speed camera yet...but I'm still working on it.