What’s your fastest recorded speed…

[I like Skol]

I think the posters saying that speeds above 40+ or 50+ are janglingly, rattlingly, erratically, dangerously twitchily out of controllable sense are either doing it wrong or need to get better bikes or bike handling skills. Honestly, I have been riding at these speeds on many varied bikes, MTB/Hybrid/road bike/gravel bike/tandem and never felt unsafe due to bike behaviour or road surface. Other road users not paying attention, yes. But the speed and conditions are rarely the big danger or problem!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I think the posters saying that speeds above 40+ or 50+ are janglingly, rattlingly, erratically, dangerously twitchily out of controllable sense are either doing it wrong or need to get better bikes or bike handling skills. Honestly, I have been riding at these speeds on many varied bikes, MTB/Hybrid/road bike/gravel bike/tandem and never felt unsafe due to bike behaviour or road surface. Other road users not paying attention, yes. But the speed and conditions are rarely the big danger or problem!

I think I could have done that spped on the bike I had when I was a teenager up to 30ish
(some neer-do-well nicked it from my garage - bar steward!)

it fit me like a glove and was steady as a rock - not bad for the cheapest 10 speed bike on the market at the time
I probably did 40 ish coming down Wrynose pass on a tour of the Lake District. Bike was dead steady but I was worried about the bends and on-coming traffic so I braked
then I got worried about temperature of the wheels etc and let it run on a bit I could see what was coming

when I did brake the rear tyre exploded!

but in those days no-one had a speedo on their bike and strava was not even a glint in a silicon eye!

 

[Lone Wolf]

Don’t know but used to regularly pass service buses on down hill stretches.

 

[DRM]

Don’t know but used to regularly pass service buses on down hill stretches.

That's nothing, i over took the service bus going uphill, into the town centre showing off, as Mrs DRM, prior to our wedding was a passenger on it! a fine uphill sprint that Cav would have been proud of, on a steel Peugeot racer too, no green jersey, just a green complexion

 

[sevenfourate]

Strava says I did 33.6mph recently. I can remember where it was too. And for Norfolk / Suffolk it was amazingly: actually downhill - and not done on the (endlessly) flat 🤣

Not sure I’ve self-propelled myself faster than that in quite some years……

 

[Rusty Nails]

Can't remember, but as I get older the faster I was.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I think the posters saying that speeds above 40+ or 50+ are janglingly, rattlingly, erratically, dangerously twitchily out of controllable sense are either doing it wrong or need to get better bikes or bike handling skills. Honestly, I have been riding at these speeds on many varied bikes, MTB/Hybrid/road bike/gravel bike/tandem and never felt unsafe due to bike behaviour or road surface. Other road users not paying attention, yes. But the speed and conditions are rarely the big danger or problem!

Are any posters saying this?

 

[cyberknight]

Are any posters saying this?

I did say since my collar bone break the speed at which i think "nope " is lower but thats more self belief than bike skills.

 

[Ridgeway]

Not too many straight enough descents that i do often enough to know the road. Most i do are fairly twisty which means max speed around 70kmh for me. This one is slightly straighter though:

 

[Brandane]

Only ever got over 50mph on one occasion. Doing the Way of the Roses, east to west, heading down "Dibble's Bridge" on the B6265 towards Grassington. On a fully laden Specialized Tricross. Would love to do that again, if I ever regain enough fitness for the uphill bits!

 

[iandg]

April 2007 pre GPS - 87kph

81.8 with GPS on the same descent September 2014 (down past the quarry to Airdashaig from the Clisham pass in Harris)

View: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/3481046

 

[HLaB]

On the old Cateye Microwireless it was 47.6mph (76.6kph) on my second descent of the day down the String Road on Arran.
The highest I've recorded on GPS that I have faith in (not stupid spikes) was 45.6mph (73.4kph) descending the A823 into Gleneagles (wide and good surface but quieter than a lot of B roads) way back in 2014.

I a right wuss descending though, particularly as my hands haven't recovered from chemo damage and in the last year the fastest I've been was 39.6mph (63.7kph) back in March and Ive barely been over 30mph (48.3kph) recently.

 

[rogerzilla]

57mph down Snap Hill into Ogbourne St George. You can do 50mph there without trying, but you need a day without a headwind for the highest speeds (and there's usually a headwind since the descent goes SW).

I got up to 56mph coming off Dartmoor into Tavistock but caught up with a Land Rover and had to brake.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My wife’s Cateye wireless had her doing 70 mph with her foot on the ground.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

125mph down the M69.