Fastest mph on a flat road!

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  • xloly
    xloly Posts: 140
    I went really fast the other day...
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    rake wrote:
    when folks are saying flat road do you carry spirit levels? i only have wrenches and a pump. :?
    I do wonder how many of these figures would stand the normal speed record rules, i.e. could they turn round and do the same in the opposite direction?
    If you then delete all rusty memories, exaggerations, wishful thinking and just plain lying, how thin a thread would this be?
  • thefonz78
    thefonz78 Posts: 148
    I was watch the tour de france highlights the other night. They were talking about the fastest clocked on the flat was 75 kph or 46.6mph by someone in the 80's. I think its amazing that someone can get a bike up to that speed on the flat.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    rake wrote:
    41.2 on a slight uphill into the wind. not really trying.

    Pathetic! 41.3 with a severe uphill. FREEWHEELING
  • on the road
    on the road Posts: 5,631
    bompington wrote:
    rake wrote:
    when folks are saying flat road do you carry spirit levels? i only have wrenches and a pump. :?
    I do wonder how many of these figures would stand the normal speed record rules, i.e. could they turn round and do the same in the opposite direction?
    If you then delete all rusty memories, exaggerations, wishful thinking and just plain lying, how thin a thread would this be?
    We're talking about fastest speed on a (roughly) level road at any point in time, not the land speed record.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    on the road wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    rake wrote:
    when folks are saying flat road do you carry spirit levels? i only have wrenches and a pump. :?
    I do wonder how many of these figures would stand the normal speed record rules, i.e. could they turn round and do the same in the opposite direction?
    If you then delete all rusty memories, exaggerations, wishful thinking and just plain lying, how thin a thread would this be?
    We're talking about fastest speed on a (roughly) level road at any point in time, not the land speed record.
    I often hit mid-40s on a hill on the way to work, as it's a bit of a drop. Going back it's a bit of a climb that I fight my way up at about 7-8mph. The two roads are entirely different - different incline (up one way, down the other), surface differs from one side to the other, wind is different, approach is different. Just what point would be made by claiming an average of 26 mph on that hill? It's a meaningless number.

    My contribution - 52mph for a good few hundred yards up the back end of a milk tanker along the A52 round Nottingham city centre some years ago, passing the Queen's Med. That was fun.
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    a good chance of ending up in there on that road imo. was it on the downhill fly over. that said its really shifting. i bet you were clinching.

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