What’s your fastest recorded speed…

[Chromatic]

49 mph going down Frocester Hill.

 

[freiston]

. . . The fastest I've freewheeled on the level with a tail wind was 18mph along Hoylake prom.

That reminded me of when I was a kid, there was a particular road on the way home from school that the wind would funnel down, giving us a nice boost - we used to unzip our parka/snorkel coats and hold out the bottom corners to act like a sail, freewheeling (riding no-handed, of course). Boston, Lincolnshire, so very much a flat level road.

 

[T4tomo]

I've often wondered what speed could be reached down 'Blue Bank' into Sleights,

You'd need balls of steel not to brake around the lefthander alongside the lorry trap.

Does anyone actually think the Max speed recording on your garmin is anywhere near accurate btw?

 

[winjim]

Time for this again. This is not my Garmin.

 

[presta]

Does anyone actually think the Max speed recording on your garmin is anywhere near accurate btw?

I have a Garmin walker's GPS, one day I walked from Oxfordshire to South America and back again.

 

[freiston]

I suspect (but don't know) that they're more accurate at higher and constant speeds, on straighter roads rather than bendy/meandering roads.

I have noticed that mine thinks I'm moving when I'm not - particularly noticeable at a refreshment stop on a recorded ride - the line looks like a big scribble around the watering hole and can add a mile or more onto a serious pub stop, greatly reducing the moving average speed.

 

[presta]

Mine joins gaps in the coverage with a straight line, which underestimates if it's not straight.

 

[HLaB]

I do have a recording that goes over 50mph, but I think that was due to a GPS glitch. The fastest speed I am confident I have actually ridden at is 48.8mph on a downhill in Florida (yes, they do have some hills, just not very many) while on holiday last year.

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Lol, The KOM on the bridleway near my house was done in 3 seconds (286mph) apparently. I think the next closest was 33 seconds. It looked like it was a GPS error too :-D

 

[HLaB]

Nudged over 60mph coming down Mount Tiede nearly a decade ago.

The max I was brave enough for was 38.7mph. Im always cautious on descents but this was my first big one after chemo, which apparently causes brittle bones 🙃

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

The max I was brave enough for was 38.7mph. Im always cautious on descents but this was my first big one after chemo, which apparently causes brittle bones 🙃

I’m normally a bit of a wimp in descending, especially on anything twisty, but the section I was fastest on was a long straight section with an incredibly smooth road surface and no junctions so you can just got for it.

i was on a hire bike too. It was a Wilier with Campag gearing and there was something about it that inspired confidence.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Tandem, that reminds me....
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That was on a 1978 tandem with dodgy brakes

Class, love it.

We got to 34 today

But that was fully laden

We once clocked 57, pre Strava, albeit without luggage.

 

[Willd]

43.6 mph down Edge Hill, which is a bit too bendy for my liking

 

[Solocle]

57 mph down Fleet Moss.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Blue Bank frightens me in a car.

A few years ago (7-8?), after a huge storm, all of the gravel from the escape-lane was washed down into Sleights

 

[sevenfourate]

I thought of this recently when looking at some info on Strava. Living in flat Suffolk is (Mostly ?) the reason my highest recorded / remembered speed was 36.something MPH I think…..