What’s your fastest recorded speed…

[I like Skol]

Do 35-40mph on most commutes....

 

[I like Skol]

Commute on 18th June...

Commute on 12th June!

 

[HLaB]

Pre GPS my max was 47.6mph on my 2nd go down the String Road on Arran back on an early CC ride. Descending experts are hitting near 60mph on the same stretch.

PS I don't trust the accuracy of early GPS:

 

[Mike Ayling]

70kmh on our Thorn tandem with four panniers.

 

[I like Skol]

Pre GPS my max was 47.6mph on my 2nd go down the String Road on Arran back on an early CC ride. Descending experts are hitting near 60mph on the same stretch.

PS I don't trust the accuracy of early GPS:

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Drove String Road towards Brodick a few days ago, didn't think it was particularly fast or steep for cycling unless maybe with a tailwind?

 

[Slick]

Pre GPS my max was 47.6mph on my 2nd go down the String Road on Arran back on an early CC ride. Descending experts are hitting near 60mph on the same stretch.

PS I don't trust the accuracy of early GPS:

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That's where I got my 50.

 

[ColinJ]

3mph
And I had to pedal to get up to that speed!

I once did the long descent from Blackstone Edge through Cragg Vale to Mytholmroyd at about that speed and I had to stand and pedal a very low gear to achieve it!

That was because the usual moderate south-westerly cross-tailwind was replaced that day by a vicious northerly headwind.

 

[slowmotion]

I think I managed 36mph down Broomfield Hill in Richmond Park. I was terrified because the road is quite bendy and narrow and sometimes has loose grit.
@Aperatif ( late of this Parish ) had an interesting opinion when we discussed tripping the speed camera down the hill into Brighton at the end of an FNRttC. "If you come off, it doesn't make any difference pain-wise if you're going 35 mph or 55 mph".

I just don't have that Zen approach.

 

[Alex321]

Probably somewhere in the mid 40's, but not sure exactly.

I hit 41mph on tonight's ride

 

[Mike Ayling]

Doing 40 mph + I put the brakes on to brake for the dynley arms pub jnc nothing I hadn't put both straddle cables back on the cross bike. Thankfully had touring shoes so had to do a schoolboy brake, managed to stop just in time.
Rode like MVP today for rest of season!!

When you have built the wheels your riding on it concentrates the mind!🤣

Might not have happened with hydro disc brakes?
R

 

[Drago]

I'm not sure what the exact speed was, but here is me in my Raleigh chopper in 1975, just before it spat me off and broke my leg.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Ibiow4hMI&pp=ygUjUmFscGggcmljaGFyZHNvbiB0aGUgc291bmQgYmFycmllciA%3D

 

[Electric_Andy]

Mine was 40mph recorded on a simple magnetic Speedo.

 

[freiston]

Back in the early eighties, a mate on a motorbike drew up next to me and said I was doing 50 something mph (can't remember exactly what he said). In the 90s I regularly hit 40+mph as reported by my Cateye Tomo (set up with a measured rolling circumference).

In more recent times, nothing like that. A couple of years ago, 42mph, pedalling downhill. I usually don't pedal that hill and max at about 32mph. I reach low 30s frequently - all downhill (North Warks).

That being said, I'm very much a slow roller who crawls up hills in very low gears and usually only averages speeds of about 10-12 mph. I used to enjoy a short sprint but less so as each year goes by

 

[oldwheels]

A few years ago but I often did 55mph downhill on a bit of the A848 where there was a good surface and plenty run off.

 

[Jody]

50........ offroad

Late 40's a few times on tarmac