CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
47mph - currently looking for a steeper/longer hill to grab that extra 3mph, ideally one in a 30mph limit and with a speed camera towards the bottom of it. :-)
Whats the fastest you've been on a bike?
- Thread starter andyfromotley
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Wolf04
New Member
- Location
- Wallsend on Tyne
Modest 34 mph down a seriously long steep residential street in Fenham Newcastle. In a group of about ten. Cars flying past us, truly exhilarating. Stopped at pub in Wylam for a quick refreshment then back. I had to walk most of its length. So technically my fastest and slowest. Oh and the Wylam Brewery's summer magic was, well magic.
hackbike 6
New Member
- Location
- The Mile End Road.
50 mph approaching brighton after climbing ditchling in the late 90's.lack of bottle prevented me in going any faster.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Broke 50 coming down Tan Hill back when I had a computer on the bike. I don't bother with one any more so I have no idea if I have been faster since... but it would be unlikely.
ghitchen
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Gullane, Scotland
51mph from Shap summit heading south with a tailwind
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=188027
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=188027
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andyfromotley
New Member
- Location
- Otley, west yorks
hey g cool,
is that sports tracker any good?
andy
is that sports tracker any good?
andy
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
46.7mph down the String Road on Arran on the road bike. I think I could of went faster but I got stuck behind a Suzuki not so Swift on the bends. I'm a pretty nervous descender usually; I usually chicken out 
if I can't see round the bend. On the commute the fastest is around 32mph down Dundas Street, Edinburgh.
if I can't see round the bend. On the commute the fastest is around 32mph down Dundas Street, Edinburgh.Jamie Stokes
New Member
- Location
- Flintshire North East Wales.
Ben Lovejoy said:
I know of just the hill.
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
I once went up Everest in a howling headwind at several million MPH on a Hellfords Barbie bike. I lost the streamers from the handlebars but it was worth it.
Nigeyy
Legendary Member
- Location
- Massachusetts, USA
Vision VR40 Recumbent, 45mph down a hill in Franklin, Massachusetts
Raleigh Technium mtb with slicks, 45mph down a hill in New Hampshire
Mongoose Rockadile hardtail mtb, 45mph down a hill in Western Massachusetts
Cannondale CAAD4 R500 road bike 47mph -Mt Wachusetts, Massachusetts
Dawes Sardar, 50mph down a mountain road in Maine
I've gone about 45mph numerous times on various bikes, just can't remember all of them. These speeds are all rounded down from cyclocomputer readings I'd measured and set, so I think they are reasonably accurate. I'm sure I could have broken 55mph going down Mt Wachusetts, but I had horrible Conti tyres on that had a bobble going and I wasn't going any faster.
Edit: perhaps the potential to go the fastest was going 45mph on knobbies on the Mongoose mtb; interestingly all the bikes felt nice and stable.
Raleigh Technium mtb with slicks, 45mph down a hill in New Hampshire
Mongoose Rockadile hardtail mtb, 45mph down a hill in Western Massachusetts
Cannondale CAAD4 R500 road bike 47mph -Mt Wachusetts, Massachusetts
Dawes Sardar, 50mph down a mountain road in Maine
I've gone about 45mph numerous times on various bikes, just can't remember all of them. These speeds are all rounded down from cyclocomputer readings I'd measured and set, so I think they are reasonably accurate. I'm sure I could have broken 55mph going down Mt Wachusetts, but I had horrible Conti tyres on that had a bobble going and I wasn't going any faster.
Edit: perhaps the potential to go the fastest was going 45mph on knobbies on the Mongoose mtb; interestingly all the bikes felt nice and stable.
hackbike 6
New Member
- Location
- The Mile End Road.
bonj said:
eh?
ghitchen
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Gullane, Scotland
andyfromotley said:
Andy,
Yes, I think Sports Tracker is very good, and it is free. I have a Nokia N81 which doesn't have inbuilt GPS so I had to buy an external bluetooth GPS, but I had already bought that to use with Nokia Maps for in-car navigation.
There is also another piece of free software on the Nokia Labs site called Location Tagger that tags photos with the GPS position. When you upload journeys from Sports tracker to the website it will search for associated photos and upload them as well.
When you log a journey you have the option of "live tracking" which uploads your position to the website as you go so that people can track your progress in almost real time.
While it is running it works like a bike computer and displays speed, average speed, distance etc etc and has multiple screens that you can scroll through. This would only be useful with a handlebar mount of some sort; I just put mine in my pocket (plus the screen is hard to read in bright sunlight anyway).
It allows you to save repeated journeys as routes and then you can tell it each time your ride the same route so it can group them together and you can see your performance against the same route for multiple journeys.
It has graphs of speed v distance, speed v time, time v altitude for each journey. It also has the facility to record laps. You can use it to record different activities e.g. running, rowing etc. It is missing mountain biking but you can define a couple of custom activities of your own to cover this (I didn't want this grouped with (road) cycling).
When you upload journeys to the web you can define if they are private, for friends or for anybody. You can also export or import journeys, but I haven't tried any of that.
Definitely worth a try if you have a compatible mobile.
Regards
Gary
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