Most people go as fast as they can going away from Coventry!
What’s your fastest recorded speed…
- Thread starter ghawks100
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Most people go as fast as they can going away from Coventry!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Probably trying to get it over with???
Fastest I have noticed on my speedo (not the swimming trunks version!) was 110
I blame Genesis - I had just got a new CD and was listening to Drum Duet for the first time
(also a rather whizzy car that I had for a while!)
froze
Über Member
- Location
- Fort Wayne, Indiana
This was back in 1980 or so, but while on a training ride in Palm Springs CA, my bike computer showed 62 mph coming down Tram Way, can't be sure how accurate the computer was, but it was close at slower speeds, but who knows at higher speeds.
Deafie
Guru
- Location
- So good they named it twice
Were you eating beans at the time?
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
From long before Strava or Garmin was a thing, but I remember clocking 82km/h coming down off Middleton Top in Cumbria on a loaded touring bike back in 2000 or so.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
On a Cateye Mity 2, I think. Old skool. I know it felt pretty quick and to be honest, with front and rear panniers it was deeply unwise!
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
We’re ’very’ flat in Norfolk / Suffolk. If I pedal hard as I can down the biggest (But short) hill near me I get close to touching 34mph. That’s feels brisk for sure. I’m not sure I’d be wholly comfortable doing 82kmh / 50mph 😳 Panniers or not 🤣
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
I was in my late 20s at the time, an age when you're invincible.
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
I was in the Outer Hebrides heading for Rhenegidale hostel and it was so windy I had to pedal downhill to do about 12mph. There was then a sharp hairpin bend in the road, so the wind was now behind me. It was like being a champagne cork out of as bottle and I quickly hit 43mph and overshot the turning to the hostel despite hauling on the brakes. Rear panniers only though.
Punkawallah
Über Member
Went to the US in the 70’s on a Boeing 747, the pilot announced our cruising speed as something over 500mph. Does that count?
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
If that counts can I submit Mach 2 on Concord??
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Relative to the Andromeda galaxy we're all whizzing along at 400,000 km/h towards it. Yikes. Brace for impact in 4.5 billion years.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
400,025 or 399,975 km/h when I'm riding, depending on the direction I'm riding.
