What is the fastest speed you have cycled ??

[burndust]

43mph on the 1A in banff canada last year, big wide roads inspire confidence!

 

[Flying Dodo]

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

Not necessarily the case. On a FNRttC I've gone down Ditchling Road into Brighton wearing my Night Vision jacket, which is liberally covered in reflectives on the rear and not triggered the speed camera at 38 mph. I was matching the speed of a tandem further in front of me which did trigger the camera.

 

[Tim Hall]

Not necessarily the case. On a FNRttC I've gone down Ditchling Road into Brighton wearing my Night Vision jacket, which is liberally covered in reflectives on the rear and not triggered the speed camera at 38 mph. I was matching the speed of a tandem further in front of me which did trigger the camera.

Indeed, I think the reflectives thing is a red herring, or coincidence.

I have mused about refilling a party popper with suitable lengths of tin foil, to be detonated in the manner of a chaff rocket at the appropriate moment.

 

[hatler]

I've triggered that camera and neither of us were wearing anything reflective, but there was metal corresponding to one and a half bikes whistling past the sensor.

 

[NorthernDave]

Updated to 41.9mph a couple of weeks ago, down 'The Windmill' between Bramham and Clifford. I'd have to check to make sure though.
Thing is I reckon I can go faster on there but the road surface is a bit lumpy at that speed and it was a little bit damp. Must try it again in the summer...

 

[Newman8]

Funny - was looking at some Garmin stats from this time last year - it claims a preposterous 68mph. I remember I was on the main A38 heading downhill from Dobwalls into the Glyn Valley with a very strong tailwind (quite a rare easterly), got narrowly overtaken by a lorry & then literally sucked along in its slipstream for a while before being spat back out & struggling to keep the bike from wobbling out from underneath me. Also think the GPS speedo may have been fooled as sometimes briefly loses signal there, but was pretty scary nevertheless!

The fastest I get on my regular routes is usually the very bottom section of the Duloe to Sandplace hill (which quite frankly I've been trying to avoid ever since a fall in the wet & total loss of confidence last Autumn) & that's usually about 45mph & also scary!

 

[Vantage]

51mph on a 531 framed Peugeot road bike when I was in my early 20's. It was on a section of westbound Rivington Road that I like to call "The Downhill Bit". Following a very sharp right hand bend, it plummets straight down for 0.20 mile before requiring some heavy braking before a left bend and then twisting right again up a short hill going past a farm on the right.
A couple years ago not long after returning to cycling I tried to break my record using my trusty tourer
47.5mph on the downhill bit from Great Knoll to Wards Reservoir (Rivington Road again). The panniers started flapping the bike about at around 45mph and my will to live overtook my will to go faster. Must be getting old.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

One day, my Garmin claimed I reached mach 3 or thereabouts. The fastest real speed I've done, though, is about 50mph, once in my 20s, and once a few years ago. I'm not game to go any faster (I must also be getting old).

 

[classic33]

I'll have to try narrow tyres.

 

[NorthernDave]

One day, my Garmin claimed I reached mach 3 or thereabouts.

That reminded me - Garmin has me logged at 146mph on the hybrid off road through Parlington Woods last year. I was quite pleased with that...

 

[lazybloke]

I bottled out of a a very fast descent of the Chevin into Otley some years ago. Had nothing to measure speed at the time, so don't know what the max was.

Can still get up to 43-44 mph in the Surrey hills, but that seems to be my limit. It certainly makes the heart beat faster.

 

[CliffAnger]

57 km /hr. Not sure what that is in real money !

 

[Dirk]

57 km /hr. Not sure what that is in real money !

35.4 mph.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

49mph downhill near Mexborough six years ago. Not that fearless these days. But then the new mtb has disk brakes...

 

[Dogtrousers]

The fastest I can remember doing under my own steam, rather than downhill, was the mid 40s km/h on the Graveny Marshes drafting some uber fast person at the end of a FNRttC Whitstable.