Hmmmm your public profile says you were born in 1990?smeg said:I can do better.
15 yrs ago i was going down a 1 in 2 hill near my house. I managed to touch 60 mph, only i went into the back of a stationary tractor as my brakes did not work at that speed and there was oncoming traffic coming the other directon. I was catapulted completly through the glass drivers cab and landing in front of the tractor, skidded for approximatley 30 metres. I completly lost all my skin on my back and my head was nearly ripped off.
I broke 31 bones including my skull and spent 15 years in hospital. i was discharged two weeks ago and happy to be back on my bike.
smeg said:I can do better.
15 yrs ago i was going down a 1 in 2 hill near my house. I managed to touch 60 mph, only i went into the back of a stationary tractor as my brakes did not work at that speed and there was oncoming traffic coming the other directon. I was catapulted completly through the glass drivers cab and landing in front of the tractor, skidded for approximatley 30 metres. I completly lost all my skin on my back and my head was nearly ripped off.
I broke 31 bones including my skull and spent 15 years in hospital. i was discharged two weeks ago and happy to be back on my bike.
lol i get it. funny. too bad there are no paved 1 in 2 hills anywhere in the worldsmeg said:I can do better.
15 yrs ago i was going down a 1 in 2 hill near my house. I managed to touch 60 mph, only i went into the back of a stationary tractor as my brakes did not work at that speed and there was oncoming traffic coming the other directon. I was catapulted completly through the glass drivers cab and landing in front of the tractor, skidded for approximatley 30 metres. I completly lost all my skin on my back and my head was nearly ripped off.
I broke 31 bones including my skull and spent 15 years in hospital. i was discharged two weeks ago and happy to be back on my bike.
velomanct said:personally, i have done 70mph, but that was drafting a friends suv down a 9% grade. what a rush, totally awsome.
53x12 at 200rpms. plug the numbers in on a 700c wheel, it's 70mph. i held it for a probally 5 seconds then backed off and pulled out of the drafted. 65mph winds are strong! I would have gone faster if I had a bigger gear, which lead me to buy a 56tooth big ring, and 11th cassette. I MIGHT be trying this again, but I am not sure, crashing at 80mph would be ugly. Anyone with good leg speed can do this, I bet a match sprinter could go very fast.leestevens said:What gear where you in? and how long did you hold that speed for?
Yes, good smooth descents are a great reward for the climbing. The Century I'm doing next month advertises "screaming 55mph+ descents". I like to focus on those, rather than the "screaming 5 mph- climb" that comes first.shaneajohnson said:We lived on a big plateau in Cincinnati, so any direction I went riding was downhill. Of couse, it made for some tough rides home back up those hills. Anyway, I hit 53 mph down a hill in Cincinnati on my Kestrel 200SC, and several times between 50 and 53. It felt rock solid each time. I live in a flat part of Texas now, and really miss those thrills of the hills.
Related side story: Going down another very curvy hill I was once doing about 45 mph. A guy in truck pulls along side, screaming out the passenger window how cool he thinks it is that I'm doing 45 mph. I'm thinking, "Man, I really don't want to be doing 45 down a curvy hill about 3 feet from a truck being driven by someone who's not paying attention! Please give me some room!"
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