What's your top speed???

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    56 mph descending the Simplon Pass. I knew I was going quite quickly but it was a buttock clenchingly scary moment when I happened to glance down at my cycle computer. :shock:

    One of the guys I was with shot past me shortly afterwards - he must have been doing 60 mph.
  • hamboman
    hamboman Posts: 512
    Fab Foodie wrote:
    49 mph coming down Mt. Ventoux. Average speed for the 22 km descent was a gnats c0ck under 40 mph.
    What a blast... :D

    did you pay homage to the great man on the way up?
  • PhilTheFish
    PhilTheFish Posts: 82
    Anyone know what system Jan used to get those nice graphs produced? I take it that it's a bike computer that you can upload data from to a PC?
  • janm399
    janm399 Posts: 132
    I used Ascent -- it works really well with all the Garmin bike GPSs; though it is an Intel binary, it only runs on OS X.

    -- Jan
    Computer geek, Manchester Wheelers' member since 2006
  • PO Paul
    PO Paul Posts: 114
    36 mph, Knights Hill West Norwood. Felt fast, but to put it in perspective, at the recent ToB Prologue at Crystal Palace on a short ("undulating") course they were AVERAGING 38-39 mph.
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Down Beckenham Hill i've rocked in at 45.6... it was clear and wind behind me etc... just made me think "if I stack it, I'll be skinned alive"

    I'm not realising I've never really gone balls out on the flat... but I' know I've down 26.something using someone else as a pace maker (not drafting)

    My best commute was an avg of 19mpg (I take the comp off going through greenwich tunnel as that doesn't count) but more normally it's 16-18 and about 1mph less on the way home
    Purveyor of sonic doom

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  • Shadowduck
    Shadowduck Posts: 845
    Clever Pun wrote:
    My best commute was an avg of 19mpg ... *snip*
    That's about the same as a big 4X4 isn't it?
    Even if the voices aren't real, they have some very good ideas.
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Shadowduck wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    My best commute was an avg of 19mpg ... *snip*
    That's about the same as a big 4X4 isn't it?


    :lol:

    feck
    Purveyor of sonic doom

    Very Hairy Roadie - FCN 4
    Fixed Pista- FCN 5
    Beared Bromptonite - FCN 14
  • Professorlandslide
    Professorlandslide Posts: 23
    40.3mph on a 20" folder on Lodge Hill, Liskeard, Cornwall... Wheee..!
    All i wanna do is...
  • Flycatcher
    Flycatcher Posts: 185
    37.5 mph down Daisy Nook in Failsworth. Twisty road and if straight maybe could get a bit more but I think I'd chicken out before the bike!
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  • sbullett
    sbullett Posts: 139
    Best so far is 47mph coming down A643 from Morley to Howden Clough, only problem is that it changes to a 30 limit at the bottom and all the cars start to brake....

    On my old MTB with 1.6" slicks I could only get to 42 mph on the same hill, shows the difference a proper road bike (Giant SCR2) makes :D

    40mph is pretty easy round here with all these lovely hills, and something has to compensate for going up the buggers.....
  • infopete
    infopete Posts: 878
    Hi

    My wife keeps on doing 71mph and I was doing 16mph at the same time.... I think she's cheating! (or needs a new computer).

    If I peddle and have a north easterly I can do 47 on my way to work but it is a bit steep then I'm make to a very sedate pace.

    Pete
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    http://americanbicyclegroup.wordpress.com

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  • beckenham
    beckenham Posts: 242
    Average is around 17mph and goes down a bot on longer rides. Top speed is 30, I can't seem to get to 40 just yet :x

    I did go out on a hot day during the summer (yes, there was a summer but only just!) and the computer told me that my top speed was 65mph :shock: Sadly I think that they sun had got to it and it went a bit loopy :wink:
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    redddraggon wrote:
    The 40.4mph was in a 30mph limit area, so I guess I was being a bit naughty,

    Not really, speed limits don't apply to cycles.

    If you were cycling "furiously" though, they can get you on that.
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  • ryanhami
    ryanhami Posts: 17
    my top speed on my racer is 32 mph avarge 16mph im only 14
  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/mountain-bik ... 305451.php

    This nutter goes pretty fast. I have been inspired to by a red skin suit and darth vader helmet for the commute 8)

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