Top Speed Down Hill's - Page 5

Um... you + bike + 105 mph + parked car = death


But yeah, the fastest I've recorded is 43 mph.

U/17 gearing cept 12t unlocked for fun (42:12)

downhill: 83.8km/h slingshot drafting in a race (wasn't a big race, otherwise I probably would have been pedalling) past a climber who was nice enough to attack and drag me up the hill.

Flat: 72km/h sprint, granted it was behind a truck, but I couldn't have spun any more on that one.

Flat: non-aided sprint, in a cross/tail wind at the end of a crit, 62km/h. That was fun. I love crits in my club cause my rivals are time triallists and climbers so if I stick with them in a road race I stand a chance.

Favourite: ~50km/h up a 4% grade for 300m every Sunday morning (speed changes due to conditions). On that particular road that is faster than the legal speed limit so I have lost count of the risky maneuvers around p***ed off drivers I have pulled to get up the hill. Not recommended but bloody fun.

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thank you crank n' cycles...If you are ever in SW WA, take a trip to Crank N' Cycles.

48.5mph on

just coasting down the hill i go about 34mph

I can hit 40 on two different hills, not even a mile long. One is about 200 meters, the other maybe 500. Proably could've gone faster if I was running a lower gear, like an 11. REMINDER!!!!! DESCEND WITH KNEES TOUCHING TOP TUBE, PREVENTS WOBBLE AT HIGH SPEEDS.

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43.7 mph on a steep hill we use for the State RR in FL...that was in juinor gears (53:15) so I could've gone faster with my 12 cog !

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Highest speed down hill 75km/h (mount lofty descent 20ks in 20 mins)

Highest flat speed 55km/h sprinting (no drafting here)

Adelaide is good. You have the hills just outside the city for climnbing and descents and the flats are good for sprinting.

55 mph bedlam village UK like 30 odd miles from my house

I have done 89Km/h (55mph) behind a bus if that counts. It was going slightly downhill !

55mph (coasting because i dont have gears big enough on my bike to pedal)

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No it doesn't. That's an old wives tale and one of the many "cycling myths" that perpetuate to this day... The only reason to bring in the knees is for aerodynamic reasons. Next you'll be telling me that bringing in the knees closer to the top tube will allow me to pedal with more power.

Top speed - 71mph, descending the east side of Mt Tiede - the big volcano in Tenerife. As$ off the back of the saddle, hands in the center of the bars and head tucked down as low as I could get while still just managing to look up. No helmet, as this was back in the day when helmets were things that only worried comuters wore. There was a storm just off the west of the island which gave a really nice tail wind - normally the winds blow from east to west but I got lucky, although it made the long climb from the coast seem fecking hard. The roads are long, wide and straight enough to not hit the brakes for miles. About a 1/3 way down the descent the grade gets pretty steep too. The computer used (Cateye) was well setup as it actually read within .01 mile during most 50 mile TT's.

Within the last decade it'd be 62mph descending Monitor Pass in the Sierra Nevadas, heading towards Topaz.