What is the fastest speed you have cycled ??

[nickyboy]

Once you get outside your comfort zone, descending isn't fun. It's pretty scary. But the feeling once you've made it to the bottom makes it all worthwhile. The adrenalin rush and exhilaration is something else.

For me, once I hit 50, I'm outside my comfort zone....it just feels too fast

 

[Racing roadkill]

A few years back I got over the 100 Km/hr mark. It was a descent of the col du Tourmalet, shortly after, I tried to repeat the trick on the descent from Ventoux. I screwed it up, and lost a lot of skin. Lesson learned.

 

[united4ever]

Wonder if and hiw often bikes set off a speed camera. Guess even a cyclist would be bulky ebiugh to trigger one.

 

[Tim Hall]

Wonder if and hiw often bikes set off a speed camera. Guess even a cyclist would be bulky ebiugh to trigger one.

Cyclists, in general, don't provide much of a radar target, so to increase your chances ride next to another similarly inclined cyclist. Don't ride a carbon bike either. I've wondered about making a gilet from an old space blanket to increase my radar cross section.

 

[Jody]

Wonder if and hiw often bikes set off a speed camera. Guess even a cyclist would be bulky ebiugh to trigger one.

All you need are some decent rear facing reflectives and they will trigger given the right speed.

 

[Dirk]

48.3 mph / 77.7 kph down Upcott Hill, Barnstaple.
I reckoned I was on for 50 mph+ but there was an oncoming car running wide at the bend at the bottom and the road was wet just before the bend.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Wonder if and hiw often bikes set off a speed camera. Guess even a cyclist would be bulky ebiugh to trigger one.

I often set off those systems that feed back your speed to you via a big digital screen. Only yesterday I was informed that I was travelling at a mind bending 18mph. There's one on my home-to-London route that I often set off at similar speeds. And no, this is not due to a car lurking behind me, I've checked.

I've no idea what my fastest speed is. Not very fast. I don't recall ever seeing a "max speed" reading on my Garmin at the end of a ride in excess of about 55km/h.

 

[Old jon]

38 mph down the old Chevin last Friday. If the road was less corrugated, could add quite a bit to that I think, based on motor bike experience. I wonder if that is relevant to cycle stuff. Must give it a try . . .

I am not a big bloke, but I do set off the camera at the bottom of Pool bank, unless a nasty expression motorist slows me down.

 

[hatler]

46mph on three occasions on different rigs : -

• Old steel tourer down Reigate Hill
• Sabbath down the drag into Brighton on an FNRttC
• Orange Evo2 (with knobbly tyres) and trailer bike at the same location (and we set the speed camera off)

 

[cuberider]

42 mph is my best (so far)

 

[Winnershsaint]

Fastest i can find on Strava is 39mph down White Hill into Henley on Thames. I too do not have the bravado of youth any more. As a kid living on the edge of the New Forest we'd all take our bikes to the top of Blissford Hill which was close by and race down there, either freewheeling or pedalling and not a helmet in sight. We'd also race back up and go down again. Race being a very loose description I might add

 

[Reefcat]

67Kph On a short hill close to home, good surface and straight

 

[Tim Hall]

All you need are some decent rear facing reflectives and they will trigger given the right speed.

How so? I thought speed cameras worked using radar not visible light.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

Wonder if and hiw often bikes set off a speed camera. Guess even a cyclist would be bulky ebiugh to trigger one.

I used to set off the speed camera in Chideock on a semi regular basis. That was the fun part of that commute

 

[Jody]

How so? I thought speed cameras worked using radar not visible light.

Not sure but check out youtube clips of people setting them off. There was one guy who couldn't set them off on roller blades until he wore some reflectives. Been meaning to try it for a while but there are no speed cameras in the right locations round here.