Why I dont go more than 25 mph, even downhill.

[Vantage]

My flawed logic tells me that the faster you go the more likely you are to be keeping up with traffic and therefore the safer you are. Well that’s my excuse anyway.

Richard Balantine wrote as much in his book and its a belief of mine too.
Can't do it myself though...I'm too slow

 

[Threevok]

48 mph is the fastest I can find on Strava - and that was downhill on road on a GT Avalanche 2 MTB with knobbly tyres and spinning out.

Best I don't have a road bike methinks

 

[boydj]

Ultimate max speed does depend somewhat on the quality of the road surface. On the descent into Lochranza on Arran I bailed out just shy of 50mph because my glasses were rattling so much I was having trouble seeing the road. On Mallorca, I went comfortably faster because the road surface was excellent. On a good surface, speed is limited more by gravity and wind resistance, though I think you'd need to be very aero to get much above 55mph or so.

 

[confusedcyclist]

You never know what's around the corner

View: https://youtu.be/rmJMUuu6xfU

I once reached terminal velocity falling from the lofty heights of me saddle, it wasn't pretty.

 

[dutchguylivingintheuk]

My flawed logic tells me that the faster you go the more likely you are to be keeping up with traffic and therefore the safer you are. Well that’s my excuse anyway.

depends on what you have behind you, if i hear a car making much more noise than it has speed because all of it's 'performance' exhaust and tweaks i gladly stop peddling for a few seconds to let them pas rather see them in a tree in front of me then having them next to me for a prolonged time are doing dangerous things just to get past.

 

[Milzy]

Only 37.5 yesterday but it wasn’t a long or steep hill. I know a few who decende slow & steady but can make up for it by climbing fast.