What's your current max speed on a descent??..
06-13-13, 06:37 AM
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65mph on the tandem descending in Everest Challenge. Tandems go downhill fast.
62 mph on a single bike years ago in a race in West Virginia, Tour de Barbour.
Last year at Masters Nationals, in the tandem Road Race, we tried attacking on the descent of Mt Bachelor, got a couple hundred yards gap, spinning our fool heads off in the mid 50's when it got to the point that the bike was shaking from the uneveness of our spinning at that rpm, and we had to sit up.
In my old age, I've gotten risk adverse. I rarely go faster than 40 mph, unless its in a race.
62 mph on a single bike years ago in a race in West Virginia, Tour de Barbour.
Last year at Masters Nationals, in the tandem Road Race, we tried attacking on the descent of Mt Bachelor, got a couple hundred yards gap, spinning our fool heads off in the mid 50's when it got to the point that the bike was shaking from the uneveness of our spinning at that rpm, and we had to sit up.
In my old age, I've gotten risk adverse. I rarely go faster than 40 mph, unless its in a race.
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prior to having the garmin I had a cateye wired and I remember ~36mph. planning on doing that same ride this weekend so i might actually have an official personal record on that hill. there simply isn't a whole lot of hills around here to get that kind of speed (northeast IL and SE WI).
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I think I have posted this before but while descending in a road race we hit 120 km/h (~75). I will regularly go over 50 sitting on the downtube with hands tight against the stem.
But like I have said before descending is one thing but what is the fastest you have hit on flat ground?
I remember bouncing off 52 last year drafting a bus....
But like I have said before descending is one thing but what is the fastest you have hit on flat ground?
I remember bouncing off 52 last year drafting a bus....
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I think I have posted this before but while descending in a road race we hit 120 km/h (~75). I will regularly go over 50 sitting on the downtube with hands tight against the stem.
But like I have said before descending is one thing but what is the fastest you have hit on flat ground?
I remember bouncing off 52 last year drafting a bus....
But like I have said before descending is one thing but what is the fastest you have hit on flat ground?
I remember bouncing off 52 last year drafting a bus....
on flat: i think it was like 45 mph behind a tractor trailor in Naples, Florida.
06-13-13, 08:25 AM
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Hill repeats on a loop around my house here in WI.
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[TD]Time[/TD]
[TD]01:16:59[/TD]
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[TD]Elapsed Time[/TD]
[TD]01:17:16[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Max Speed[/TD]
[TD]51.2mi/h[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Avg Speed[/TD]
[TD]14.7mi/h[/TD]
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[TD]Time[/TD]
[TD]01:16:59[/TD]
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[TD]Elapsed Time[/TD]
[TD]01:17:16[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Max Speed[/TD]
[TD]51.2mi/h[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Avg Speed[/TD]
[TD]14.7mi/h[/TD]
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Spun out a 53x11 and then pro-tucked in the Centurion Fondo up in Collingwood Ontario on one of the long steep descents. Every slight rise/bump in the road was a jump.... scary stuff thinking about it now.
87.2 km/h max speed ( 54 mph )
[IMG]i.imgur.com/ZRICf.jpg[/IMG]
87.2 km/h max speed ( 54 mph )
[IMG]i.imgur.com/ZRICf.jpg[/IMG]
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06-13-13, 09:03 AM
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When I was young and dumb and full of ice cream I hit 90kmh on a descent... which is roughly 56mph.
The grade was steep enough to rate runaway lanes for trucks and I was pacing cars on the way down which really freaked out the drivers.
Around here the grades are not quite as steep and you might hit 75-80 before you have to brake for a corner or an intersection... one street is steep enough and long enough that I think you could break 50 pretty easily but it is a one way going up.
The switch in my brain that says "you are going to die" works much better now.
The grade was steep enough to rate runaway lanes for trucks and I was pacing cars on the way down which really freaked out the drivers.
Around here the grades are not quite as steep and you might hit 75-80 before you have to brake for a corner or an intersection... one street is steep enough and long enough that I think you could break 50 pretty easily but it is a one way going up.
The switch in my brain that says "you are going to die" works much better now.
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Spun out a 53x11 and then pro-tucked in the Centurion Fondo up in Collingwood Ontario on one of the long steep descents. Every slight rise/bump in the road was a jump.... scary stuff thinking about it now.
87.2 km/h max speed ( 54 mph )
[IMG]i.imgur.com/ZRICf.jpg[/IMG]
87.2 km/h max speed ( 54 mph )
[IMG]i.imgur.com/ZRICf.jpg[/IMG]
We used to race a Canada Cup race on there, except we had to climb it.
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I think I hit that speed after the KOM climb about 70 miles into the 2012 Centurion course. That area is all up and down. Back when I used to race in 80s/90s, scenic caves road was where they did the provincial hill climb championships. A silly short event, but tough as hell.
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Search for the paragraphs on this page with the word "bottle" in them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Robic
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According to the Garmin - it was 46.1 mph. And that was with no tuck and no pedaling, just a dead coast from the top on the drops.
https://ridewithgps.com/trips/338108
https://ridewithgps.com/trips/338108
06-13-13, 01:16 PM
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(and it seems like many riders can not either).
