1 CycleNut said:Wow some of you guys can haul! I'm takin Chemo Theropy have been for last 4 months so have been slowed down now....... I would do good to do 25 now... When I was up to snuff probably 35 tops.....Thats with my old Motobecane ..... Good ole bike! This Chemo is rough stuff I am envious of Lance Armstrong... He is my hero! He keeps me goin! Terry S..........
gntlmn said:In a tuck on a downhill, whether I spin or not, it seems that my current top speed is only 42.4 mph. It always reads this same number. I'm beginning to wonder whether my computer won't read any higher than that.
I still haven't done the all out sprint on the flats this thread asks for. I like to pedal and pedal for hours, like a Forest Gump of biking. Sprinting I might do if someone challenged me, but on my own, it's hard to muster the adrenaline it would take to do a really great sprint. I hope I look at the speedometer when this finally happens.
sooray02 said:I got chased by a dog (a huge skinny dog) about a couple of weeks ago. That son of a gun was pretty fast. However, when I saw it chasing me, I got scared but I took off immediately and when I looked down and it said 34mph. Also my heart rate was around 190-195. I kept that speed for about a minute or less. Now when I see dogs, I just take off automatically.
crees22 said:I would imagine that to get a good drag you would have to be right tucked up behind the truck, that could seriously catch you out under breaking if it pulls up sharpish, sounds like playing with fire.
MrCjolsen said:Is there a handicap for being on a mountain bike?
24 mph. (80 psi street tires)
I can hold 19 or 20.
I've been cycling (regularly) for about a month. I'm 42
mattv2099 said:Today when the stop light went green I hammered standing up till 29 mph and held that for a a few hundred meters. I didn't hit lactate threshhold. I'm in base training for the upcoming cyclocross season...
I've taken a couple years off the bike (just started training again) but back when I was training in my previous life at the same stop light I would hit 35 mph in an all out sprint. That was during the build phase of my training.
Columbia said:Top ever speed (with a crosswind, but lets ignore that little fact ) was 63.3 KPH (39.5 MPH) just a couple of days ago. However, juniors are made to use restricted gears (I'd unrestricted mine for that day) so with them it's hard for me to replicate that speed even on a descent .
Top speed with my gears restricted was 34.5 MPH. It was in a race a few weeks back.
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