Have you gone fast enough on a bike to...

Cressers

...set off one of those roadside speed control signs that light up "TOO FAST!"?

MattC59

Nope, but once I must have hit a critical speed as I went back in time. Well, that's what the Isle of Wight looked like !!

richrock

Yes - I was laughing for the next mile. Going down a descent into a village with the obligatory 30MPH round sign - plus a speedo display. I was doing 38.

Then I hit 88mph afterwards and it all went strange.... like I'd gone back in time

Ollieda

I've set them off a few times back home but I think they are set to pick up speeds pretty low! Haven't noticed any ones that flash up your speed whilst I've been on the bike, just the ones warning you that you're too fast and tell you to slow down.

There's one road back home, long and twisty 60mph road for cars but 30mph on the corners - all the flashing signs are placed at the exits to corners and on the descents, far to easy to get the speed up to set them off, crap placement as far as i'm concerned

SCR Pedro

I regularly sprint to one way out in the sticks. There are hundred yard markers and maybe a 1% downhill leading to it. I got to 31mph on a sprint a couple of days ago. I think my best has been mid 30's with a glorious tailwind.

wicked

Yes in a 30 mph zone, I looked at my computer and I was doing 18mph :oops:

geordieindevon

Yes coming into a small Devon village on the Tour of Britain last summer....I was only doing the 70km Honiton to Teignmouth route though and not the longer Minehead route!

I think I was doing about 35-36mph.

fossyant

Usually happens when in a group. Set a load off last year when riding over to Sheffield - got 40 flashing in a 30. :twisted:

Secteur

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alex1

on rose lane by mcdonals on the flat at 30mph....wasnt even on the drops

nwallace

One has been put in place in the village, I will soon be doing sprint practice.

freehub

Yeh 30+ up hill.

tri-sexual

cadseen wrote:

Fastest i been downhill was 58mph, and i got dropped !!!!

yeah, sorry about that

DIESELDOG

Not to be told to slow down but I was clocked at 26mph on the MTB coming in to my village.

Love n hugs

DD

PostieJohn

Yep, into the village of Cocking, at the bottom of a nice descent, it's almost impossible not to set it off.

yenrod

Cressers wrote:

...set off one of those roadside speed control signs that light up "TOO FAST!"?

NO, but i went thru some lights once once and got flashed by a Gatso !!!!!

williamwasp

Cressers wrote:

...set off one of those roadside speed control signs that light up "TOO FAST!"?

I cycled through Chatteris (in the Fens) last week and there was a mental old women standing at the side of the road, holding up a 'SPEED KILLS' sign to passing traffic. She held it up to me as cycled by at 17.6 mph. Does this count :?:

Aggieboy

PostieJohn wrote:

Yep, into the village of Cocking, at the bottom of a nice descent, it's almost impossible not to set it off.

DIESELDOG wrote:

Not to be told to slow down but I was clocked at 26mph on the MTB coming in to my village.

Love n hugs

DD

What a coincidence, DD had just come from Cocking.

on the road

I've set a few off, some even flash my speed which is like a red rag to a bull

JamesB

Triggered the a road corner warning SLOW DOWN speed sign and speed (37 mph) coming off Clee Hill down Angel Bank a week ago as approaching a sharp bend

term1te

Regularly get the sad face on one near my house, but it is in a 30 kmh zone. I work on a large industrial estate, and they occasionally put one on a road on site. I see it as a challenge.

AlunJ

We have loads of the ones that flash your speed up round by me, it seems you can set them off at 20mph