Max Speed?

[I like Skol]

Tried a quick speed run last week after this topic came up but got caught in traffic so only managed 35mph. This morning managed 41.9mph on my way home after a 12 hr night shift and with 2 loaded panniers acting as wind brakes. This was down Crescent Rd from Dukinfield into Ashton, no traffic at 7.30 on a sunday morning!

 

[biggs682]

we saw a 25.7 mph this morning on small downhill section on tandem this morning freewheeling , down tell the other half

 

[Shrim]

Checked my computer after a run down Roby Mill Hill in Wigan and managed 40mph on a 12% incline. When I got home checked my computer again and it said max speed 97.3mph. Can't remember falling off a cliff! Will have to check the batteries.

 

[HelenD123]

37mph on my fully loaded tourer somewhere on the US Pacific Coast. I'm a real wuss going downhill and despaired of ever breaking 30mph but finally did it in Canada.

 

[HLaB]

Over 50mph (I can't actually remember the exact speed), coming down Tan Hill in Yorkshire on a steel road bike with rear panniers!. I may or may not have gone faster than this but I've long since abandonned bike computers.

Must of been fun The only time I've got over 50 (57.4mph), I only actually got 4 inches; it was on the turbo.

 

[Goto10]

41mph (Garmin Edge 500 speedo) downhill on my hybrid bike. Felt faster!

 

[david1701]

I wanna computer now

 

[davehann]

45 mph heading down the caerpilly mountain road towwards cardiff :-)

 

[Bicycle]

Just over 45 mph on the Malvern Hills on a descent I do regularly-ish.

The upper part of the descent has a dreadful surface, so I can't really have a go where speed would be easy to pick up.

I'm sure that's a 50+ descent, but I always seem to chicken out where the tarmac's bad.

The WORST descent ever was on that same slope... I got into what we used to call a tankslapper on motorcycles and was weaving right across the road and looking for a soft place to ditch. Had there been oncoming traffic I would have been launched or lunched.

I was astounded both to get to the bottom still in the saddle and to see that my max was 39 mph. It felt like 139...

I still don't know what happened to set the wobble up, but found nothing wrong with the bike afterwards.

 

[biglad]

Some of these speeds are...intimidating!

I hit just under 25mph on a downhill today, I was petrified!

 

[ramses]

I managed 62.5 mph the other day

What impressed me was that I had locked my bike up in the shed at work, had my shower and had just sat down at my desk, put the computer down and WOW! I was going 62.5mph
No effort at all!!

It was the mobile phone actually

I had put it on my desk next to the cycle computer and it had set it off.

Still, went out on the new road bike for the 4th weekend in a row on Saturday and clocked 38.4 mph, I intend to beat my MTB speed of 44.7 mph but am just getting used to the new bike, and indeed a road bike, as it's been a while.

 

[Matthames]

The fastest I have been has been down Exceat hill towards Exceat bridge on the A259. I clocked a speed of around 45mph. Close to that was what I call the Mallydams run, which starts near Mallydams wood in Hastings and descends to Pett level over 3 miles. I can usually do speeds over 40 for the entire decent.

The scariest decent I have done is Cheddar gorge. I don't know the speed I was doing, but I nearly needed to have a change of underwear when I panicked and nearly lost control and face planted into a 100ft cliff face.

 

[Andrew_P]

Fastest I have been is 33mph, how do you lot get so high? @ 33mph cadence according to my Garmin was 93, but it felt like I couldn't get push on it and the speed of rotataing was making me quite unstable so backed off and coasted.

I am on a Roubaix comp Compact

 

[Moodyman]

Some of these speeds are...intimidating!

I hit just under 25mph on a downhill today, I was petrified!

When I first got into cycling, I was intimidated by every downhill. Pressed brakes every few intervals.

But you soon get used to it. I now don't bat an eyelid hitting 40mph.

Having confidence in your ability and your bike's integrity makes a lot of difference.

PS - gotta aim for the top speed on the right roads. No point going hellfire if there's a junction at the bottom or a tight bend or if the road is far from smooth.

 

[arallsopp]

49.4mph drafting young Mr ILB's down the Devils Dyke

None of us with any sleep, and he with the brakes on, IIRC.

My max to date (verified) has been 52.4mph, on Reigate Hill in the dark, pursued by the Martlets TT group. We were the advance guard, and I was only really measuring my speed relative to the group. In hindsight, not a brilliant idea.

Though it would be churlish to omit that it gave me the giggles.

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