Your fastest photo?

Bhima
Bhima Posts: 2,145
edited April 2009 in The bottom bracket
Can anyone beat mine? :lol:

Pretty dangerous stuff! :shock:

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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    I like my teeth just the way they are thanks....
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    +1.

    And most of my limbs.
  • Red Rock
    Red Rock Posts: 517
    Darwin candidate :lol:
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Yes, and when I'm back at uni with my camera I'll get a picture of my speedo showing a higher speed.
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    Do rollers count?
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    whyamihere wrote:
    Do rollers count?

    I was going to do it on the turbo....
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  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    Road only! :lol:
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    It's not the speed that's the problem (I regularly hit 50+ mph coming down the local hills) - it's messing about taking photographs at that speed that would worry me... :shock:
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Stupid idea. I think most of us would be peed off if motorists were on a website taking pics of their speedos - and its a lot easier to take pics in a car than it is on a bike.....
  • andrewjoseph
    andrewjoseph Posts: 2,165
    Can anyone beat mine?

    And I get annoyed at car drivers using mobile phones!

    You have just shown that you were riding without due care and attention, which is an offence.
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  • Airwave
    Airwave Posts: 483
    Imagine the seen-hushed quiet as you recount the story to those gatherd by the side of your intensive care bed,oh the merriment & adulation!
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  • tomskelton
    tomskelton Posts: 8
    I'm gonna beat that Bhima!
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  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    It was in the peak district - no cars anywhere, smooth road, high visibility. I'm not a complete nutter! :)
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Can we be the judge of that....

    That speed is nothing on a bike - but most of us wouldnt think to get cameras out on a descent.

    Now if you had two magnets on your wheel - thats more like a decent top speed.
  • jellybellywmb
    jellybellywmb Posts: 1,379
    Asked the wife but she said she will NOT sit on the back to take the photo.
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  • Ash_
    Ash_ Posts: 385
    Two issues -

    1) This is a really, really, really dumb thing to do.

    2) You weren't going very fast so it's not even impressive anyway.

    If it's about the speed, use a Garmin, it'll log the speed which you can prove later using SportTracks or the like. If it's about taking an 'extreme' photo, find something that is more impressive and more photogenic than a cycle computer.
  • vitesse169
    vitesse169 Posts: 422
    I once took a really, really fast photo on my old olympus om10 - it was at 1/1000th sec !!!
  • wolleur
    wolleur Posts: 30
    22.66 miles in 1hour 42 minutes would give you a average speed of 13 mph.

    No wonder you think 33.5mph is fast.

    Please don't risk yourself to try and impress us!
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  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    wolleur wrote:
    22.66 miles in 1hour 42 minutes would give you a average speed of 13 mph.

    No wonder you think 33.5mph is fast.

    Please don't risk yourself to try and impress us!

    For the record, i'd just been climbing at about 8mph for a bout 45 minutes and my fastest speed is 58.9mph so I do not consider this "fast".

    As i've already mentioned, there was no traffic. I think it's safer doing this than riding in busy traffic for 15 minutes! I mean, look at the road I did it on for god's sake!!!

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    This thread was only meant to be a bit of fun, I didn't know you'd all take it so seriously, when I clearly have explained that it was an empty road... You'd not catch me with my phone out when there's traffic about! :shock: :?
  • dbb
    dbb Posts: 323
    that's a great looking road - where is that?

    but after a 45 minute climb; if that is the decent, it must be a bit dissappointing?
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Bhima wrote:
    You'd not catch me with my phone out when there's traffic about! :shock: :?

    Obviously not as 1337 as Willhub then, he answered his phone on a clubrun, while going through Wythenshawe
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,824
    dbb wrote:
    that's a great looking road - where is that?

    but after a 45 minute climb; if that is the decent, it must be a bit dissappointing?

    Dunno if I'm right but I'd guess at the road between Chapel en le Frith and Glossop?

    Based on the 45 min worth of climb beforehand, it is horrific

    If I am right there's a kick ass descent round the corner in the distance, dead straight and steep :)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    redddraggon wrote:
    Bhima wrote:
    You'd not catch me with my phone out when there's traffic about! :shock: :?

    Obviously not as 1337 as Willhub then, he answered his phone on a clubrun, while going through Wythenshawe

    I had to though it was my dad. I cant stop it'll hold eveyone up.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    dbb wrote:
    that's a great looking road - where is that?

    but after a 45 minute climb; if that is the decent, it must be a bit dissappointing?

    Not sure where as Will has yet to send me the route. :|

    It's somewhere along the A54 though - inbetween where it meets the Cat and Fiddle and where you turn off on to Hollin Lane to go towards Sutton in Macclesfield. The descent into Sutton is amazing!
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    redddraggon wrote:
    Obviously not as 1337 as Willhub then, he answered his phone on a clubrun, while going through Wythenshawe

    Who would want to stop in Whythenshaw though...? :shock:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    dbb, it's on the way to blaze frarm ice cream shop - it's not as nice in real life as it looks on the pictures.

    Route:


    www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=3737

    Remember we cut it short by about 12 miles cause that bit on the A34 and up to near congleton is **** and boring so I did not want to do it.
  • PostieJohn
    PostieJohn Posts: 1,105
    That is a mighty fine looking road, shame it's in 'northern monkey' world!.

    Oh and for the record, 49.2mph, sadly not permanently recorded.
    http://www.bikeradar.com/road/forums/vi ... t=12792776

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