Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
You have got to be crazy to go at 70mph on a push bike period.
What is the fastest speed you have cycled ??
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
52 mph on the A470 after the climb out of Blaenau in Snowdonia. Good surface wide straight bit of road with no side roads to worry about. The KOM on Strava hit 74mph on it.
https://www.strava.com/segments/1267710?filter=overall
Looks like that 74mph was a tracking blip, but he had extended stretches around 63mph which is mighty fast. Regarding a "safe" descending speed my thoughts are that it won't make much difference if I come off at 40, 50 or 60. It isn't going to be pretty. Funnily enough, doing 45 feels easy and relaxed. But get above 50 and everything seems to be flying past too quickly. Can't imagine what 63 feels like, my fastest is 56 which was "exhilarating"
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User482
Guest
The descent from Dundry Hill to Chew Stoke is proving quite fruitful at the moment - I had 50 and 52mph on my last two rides. My scariest was hitting 50+ off Waddington Fell a few years back on my ancient steel Thorn - the frame felt like it was flexing and I struggled to hold any kind of line. Lord knows how the pros used to descend on bikes like that. My all time record is 56mph down Jubilee Tower near Lancaster - that was interesting.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
In the days of Avocet 'computers' (more accurate than GPS...........)
Post 1994, as it was on my Dyna-Tech 755Ti
Deciding to go for it, down East Chevin, into Otley
61 'point something' MPH
As much as anything, I still remember the blurring vision, & streaming eyes
Let alone hoping that nothing came out of the car-parks
Braking like hell, upon getting to the bridge, over the bypass
Telling myself never to be so stupid again........................... which worked, until I next took the same route
Post 1994, as it was on my Dyna-Tech 755Ti
Deciding to go for it, down East Chevin, into Otley
61 'point something' MPH
As much as anything, I still remember the blurring vision, & streaming eyes
Let alone hoping that nothing came out of the car-parks
Braking like hell, upon getting to the bridge, over the bypass
Telling myself never to be so stupid again........................... which worked, until I next took the same route
Kajjal
Guru
- Location
- Wheely World
On road just over 50mph , not concentrating on a steep downhill. Front wheel started to unweight and carefully dropped speed once I noticed. Not a good idea.
Off road hit mid 40's mph on a fire road, again due to not paying attention. Had to let bike find its own way over where logging lorries had rutted the fire road and round a corner. Luckily I stayed on. I have never repeated the I am going to die feeling after this !
Off road hit mid 40's mph on a fire road, again due to not paying attention. Had to let bike find its own way over where logging lorries had rutted the fire road and round a corner. Luckily I stayed on. I have never repeated the I am going to die feeling after this !
Just over 45 down Kelsall hill near Chester, and not far off the same approaching Broxton roundabout from Harthill, both on road bikes. Best (that I know about) on the mountain bike was circa 36mph on Fire Road in Delamere Forest.
Quite tempted to see what my 29er will do down Kelsall, but not sure if that's a good idea on a mountain bike.
Quite tempted to see what my 29er will do down Kelsall, but not sure if that's a good idea on a mountain bike.
83.5km/h last week, from Mont Ventoux down to Malaucene. That's a FAST route.
Back in 2005 I hit 56 mph on the same bit of road down to Malaucene. What an adrenaline rush.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Yes, that bit of road has all the right ingredients:
- steep
- smooth
- fairly straight
- long enough to build up lots of speed
KneesUp
Guru
I have fond memories of taking bikes on the Ffestiniog railway to Blaenau with my dad and then racing the train back when I was 15. No bike computer, so no idea of top speed, but it was fun.
classic33
Leg End Member
Which won?
KneesUp
Guru
We did, of course - but not by much!
gaijintendo
Veteran
- Location
- Scotchland
I don't really go by speed, but rather a differential between wind speed and speed; measured by the speed my hood that doesn't roll away brilliantly flaps.
It once was flapping so fast it whistled.
It once was flapping so fast it whistled.
Siclo
Veteran
Descending into Newton or Waddington? Into Waddington is fantastic. I recall dropping into Newton years ago and bunny hopping the cattle grid at about 40mph, I will never figure out how I made the corner, felt like I was in the air forever. An adrenaline is brown moment.
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User482
Guest
Into Newton - I've never ridden it the other way round. 84.5 kph according to my Garmin.
