How Fast have youbeen on your bike ?

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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Finally got round to watching the video. . .
    (1) Not 77mph. Kph, just possibly as a peak speed
    (2) Using both sides of a road with what appears to be inadequate sightlines - not a good idea
    (3) What does the cameraman keep looking down at?
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  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    Things went wrong for me at over 40mph once. Broke my leg in three places (that's three places on my leg, not three different towns)
    Here's the graph...
    Blue is speed, garmin showed a max of 44 at which point I hit the gravel on the corner.

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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Very expressive how the blue line drops to zero and then there's that couple of little peaks just after it - I've got a vivid picture of the Garmin, unattached to the bike, bouncing down the road . . .
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  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    40mph is about the point when my @rse begins to squeak.

    Above that speed you know that any off is going to hurt. A lot.
  • mikeharris666
    mikeharris666 Posts: 17
    all very interesting, thanks for the entertainment, though Im doubtful if some of you can se the irony. happy christmas.
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Mikeharris666 wrote:
    all very interesting, thanks for the entertainment, though Im doubtful if some of you can se the irony. happy christmas.

    You mean it was a joke ? After you tried to justify it with "The computer was on the bike in front" ?
    Even so, irony is the wrong word.

    Happy Christmas to you too
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Mikeharris666 wrote:
    all very interesting, thanks for the entertainment, though Im doubtful if some of you can se the irony. happy christmas.

    :lol:
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  • petemadoc
    petemadoc Posts: 2,331
    Funny how many far fetched stories later turn out to be "a bit of fun" or "just a joke" and people are then accused of a sense of humour failure.

    I found this thread extremely funny :)
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,467
    PeteMadoc wrote:
    Funny how many far fetched stories later turn out to be "a bit of fun" or "just a joke" and people are then accused of a sense of humour failure.

    I found this thread extremely funny :)


    +1
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    PeteMadoc wrote:
    Funny how many far fetched stories later turn out to be "a bit of fun" or "just a joke" and people are then accused of a sense of humour failure.

    I found this thread extremely funny :)

    I love the way he resurrected the thread, after 10 days and after it had fallen off the front page.
    Genius !! :roll:

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  • rozzer32
    rozzer32 Posts: 3,923
    Hahaha this thread cracks me up every time.

    Happy Christmas to you too, have you asked for a new computer?
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  • sancho_panza
    sancho_panza Posts: 183
    87kph road bike Strock Absolutist 1.0 with Cosmic Carbone SL descending Mont Ventoux to Malaucene

    94kph fully laden barracuda touring mountainbike descending Paso San Francisco, Argentina 4700m asl. Think the thin air might have helped.
  • petemadoc
    petemadoc Posts: 2,331
    Sancho Panza wrote:
    87kph road bike Strock Absolutist 1.0 with Cosmic Carbone SL descending Mont Ventoux to Malaucene

    94kph fully laden barracuda touring mountainbike descending Paso San Francisco, Argentina 4700m asl. Think the thin air might have helped.

    Have you got a video?
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Sancho Panza wrote:
    87kph road bike Strock Absolutist 1.0 with Cosmic Carbone SL descending Mont Ventoux to Malaucene

    94kph fully laden barracuda touring mountainbike descending Paso San Francisco, Argentina 4700m asl. Think the thin air might have helped.
    Think you've missed point, this thread isn't about how fast you actually have been
  • sancho_panza
    sancho_panza Posts: 183
    Sancho Panza wrote:
    87kph road bike Strock Absolutist 1.0 with Cosmic Carbone SL descending Mont Ventoux to Malaucene

    94kph fully laden barracuda touring mountainbike descending Paso San Francisco, Argentina 4700m asl. Think the thin air might have helped.
    Think you've missed point, this thread isn't about how fast you actually have been[/quote]

    ah, if that's the case... then flapping barbour jacket on my fixie down Dundas Street (Edinburgh) wearing a pair of ski goggles, half cut after a boozy lunch in Deacon Brodies - clocked at 50mph by the rozzers going through the red lights on the corner of Eyre place. Spinning out like wind turbine in a force 10.
  • mikeharris666
    mikeharris666 Posts: 17
    rozzer32 wrote:
    Hahaha this thread cracks me up every time.

    Happy Christmas to you too, have you asked for a new computer?

    secret santa has a £10 limit. so yes..
  • thecrofter
    thecrofter Posts: 734
    Sancho Panza wrote:
    Sancho Panza wrote:
    87kph road bike Strock Absolutist 1.0 with Cosmic Carbone SL descending Mont Ventoux to Malaucene

    94kph fully laden barracuda touring mountainbike descending Paso San Francisco, Argentina 4700m asl. Think the thin air might have helped.
    Think you've missed point, this thread isn't about how fast you actually have been
    ah, if that's the case... then flapping barbour jacket on my fixie down Dundas Street (Edinburgh) wearing a pair of ski goggles, half cut after a boozy lunch in Deacon Brodies - clocked at 50mph by the rozzers going through the red lights on the corner of Eyre place. Spinning out like wind turbine in a force 10.
    No way, could you do 50mph down Dundas St. 50kph maybe, Lothian & Borders finest must be using an Atech F13 radar gun. Video or it never happened............and even if you've got video, it still never happened
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    sfichele wrote:
    The picture of the computer suggests he was going - 77 mph. There appears to be a minus sign

    Now that I'd like to see ;)

    Maybe he was going backwards.
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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    I saw the title of this thread and though 'Regular topic; read this kinda thing before...'

    How wrong I was, lovely stuff.
  • b16 b3n
    b16 b3n Posts: 301
    If you did 77mph on a MTB with 26inch wheels on. My question is this. HOW THE FREEK ARE YOU NOT DEAD?

    I think you didnt set you computer to the correct wheel size, massive D'OH! :mrgreen:
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  • b16 b3n
    b16 b3n Posts: 301
    48mph down a local hill near me. That was my limit before I bottled it and realised I was on a full carbon bike as there was a few potholes
    " GET BACK CROC "
  • thecrofter
    thecrofter Posts: 734
    b16 b3n wrote:
    48mph down a local hill near me. That was my limit before I bottled it and realised I was on a full carbon bike as there was a few potholes
    Another example of not reading the whole thread before responding......
    You've no won the Big Cup since 1902!
  • Redhog14
    Redhog14 Posts: 1,377
    viewtopic.php?f=30005&t=12810035&start=60

    quick before it goes... who will be first?
    @surroundedbh
  • b16 b3n
    b16 b3n Posts: 301
    thecrofter wrote:
    b16 b3n wrote:
    48mph down a local hill near me. That was my limit before I bottled it and realised I was on a full carbon bike as there was a few potholes
    Another example of not reading the whole thread before responding......

    The title of the thread is how fast have you been on your bike? So i responded.

    The title wasnt, how fast have you been on your bike and ill tell you if your correct.

    or did i read it incorrect?
    " GET BACK CROC "
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,467
    Whoosh
  • Redhog14
    Redhog14 Posts: 1,377
    b16 b3n wrote:
    thecrofter wrote:
    b16 b3n wrote:
    48mph down a local hill near me. That was my limit before I bottled it and realised I was on a full carbon bike as there was a few potholes
    Another example of not reading the whole thread before responding......

    The title of the thread is how fast have you been on your bike? So i responded.

    The title wasnt, how fast have you been on your bike and ill tell you if your correct.

    or did i read it incorrect?
    sort of as the point by crofter was; did you read the Thread before posting, not did you read the title. but good for you 48mph is perfectly respectable, now where's the proof?
    @surroundedbh
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Pross wrote:
    Whoosh
    ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
    What was that?! It sounds like a bike travelling at 77mph...
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    This gets better everytime I open it !!!
    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,467
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Whoosh
    ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
    What was that?! It sounds like a bike travelling at 77mph...

    Yep - but when I hit my fastest speed of 785mph it makes a boom :wink:
  • b16 b3n
    b16 b3n Posts: 301
    Redhog14 wrote:
    b16 b3n wrote:
    thecrofter wrote:
    b16 b3n wrote:
    48mph down a local hill near me. That was my limit before I bottled it and realised I was on a full carbon bike as there was a few potholes
    Another example of not reading the whole thread before responding......

    The title of the thread is how fast have you been on your bike? So i responded.

    The title wasnt, how fast have you been on your bike and ill tell you if your correct.

    or did i read it incorrect?
    sort of as the point by crofter was; did you read the Thread before posting, not did you read the title. but good for you 48mph is perfectly respectable, now where's the proof?

    Leave it with me and it can be arranged as ones go pro is in your Wifes stocking for me!
    " GET BACK CROC "

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