Originally Posted by
cyccommute
75 mph is probably a computer error.
Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Early computers were well known to occasional throw an error.
It may have been an error, but I don’t think it was. That particular computer did glitch once in a while, when it would record a max speed of 99.9 on a ride...But it never (to my knowledge) gave an inaccurate reading other than 99.9. And the 75.7 mph reading came on a very steep descent on which I had pedaled hard (until I was spun out) over the top and then tucked low for max speed. (I was trying to catch a group that was about 30 meters ahead of me.)
At any rate, nowadays I would probably not be comfortable at any speed above 50 mph or so, and even then only on a bike which I know to be in good working order, with fresh tires and etc.