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 2006-08-20 12:12 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Veteran  170   Denver, Colorado |  Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed???My cyclocomputer says I hit 68.3mph yesterday during my race! Now I know based on my time that I was going anywhere near 68 or I would have won. Anyone ever have such a crazy reading? I think I must have gotten a double reading from some of the people I passed since my milage was high as well. Prior to that my high was just over 38mph (road) for the past 300 miles and 33.4mph (mountain bike). Don't have any record of what i might have done before that. |
| 2006-08-20 1:12 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Veteran 332 Calgary | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? |
| 2006-08-20 1:34 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Master 1848  Canandaigua | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? Need to revise. 50.7 mph today coming down Millers hills. I don't think pedaling would have made me any faster. Poor M-daddy had a wobble and couldn't let go. |
| 2006-08-20 3:01 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Extreme Veteran 321 Guelph | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 70.5 KMH on a nice steep long hill, just did it this morning. Felt amazing ery stable and smooth. For the americans out there its only 44MPH |
| 2006-08-20 5:25 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Elite 2421 | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? |
| 2006-08-20 6:38 PM in reply to: #516714 |
Champion 6627 Rochester Hills, Michigan Gold member | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? dexter - 2006-08-20 2:34 PM Need to revise. 50.7 mph today coming down Millers hills. I don't think pedaling would have made me any faster. Poor M-daddy had a wobble and couldn't let go. That hill is A-MA-ZING. If you want to really let go, ride the Highlander Cycle Tour You'll PR your speed in no time. The hills are just bananas. Even without a wobble. |
| 2006-08-20 8:33 PM in reply to: #516854 |
Master 1848 Canandaigua | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? rkreuser - 2006-08-21 7:38 AM That hill is A-MA-ZING. If you want to really let go, ride the Highlander Cycle Tour You'll PR your speed in no time. The hills are just bananas. Even without a wobble. Think I would need to buy another gear for the 100 highlander. Would been nice to have ya there today. |
| 2006-08-21 12:35 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Extreme Veteran 574 Crossville, TN | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? I train on a mountain in east Tennessee were I always hit 45mph for 2.5 miles. That long in the drop part of the bars and your arms are cramping from the death grip. I've seen 51mph for about 5 seconds on a hill in the 2 county Metric 100 bike ride in Murfreesboro, TN. |
| 2006-08-21 1:15 PM in reply to: #82193 |
| 67 | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 45 mph during my race at lake arrowhead, CA on Saturday. I then hit my brakes to slow for a turn, and proceeded to fishtail. AHHHH. Pulled it together, after a dangerous swerve. I thought I knew how to handle a bike. Guess what, I don't. |
| 2006-08-21 1:21 PM in reply to: #516681 |
Extreme Veteran 452 Ottawa, Ontario | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? Mile High Marc - 2006-08-20 1:12 PM My cyclocomputer says I hit 68.3mph yesterday during my race! Now I know based on my time that I was going anywhere near 68 or I would have won. Anyone ever have such a crazy reading? I think I must have gotten a double reading from some of the people I passed since my milage was high as well. Prior to that my high was just over 38mph (road) for the past 300 miles and 33.4mph (mountain bike). Don't have any record of what i might have done before that. I have a wireless bike computer that always gives me crazy max speeds. According to the computer I have done over 90 kph. For my true max speed I usually glance down at the readout when I feel I am getting too fast. D |
| 2006-08-21 2:21 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Extreme Veteran 341 Houston, TX | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? I too have survived the descent down "Suicide Hill" during April's MS150, right outside of Bastrop Texas. I only made that speed because I pedaled all the way down in the big ring (it felt weird just balancing - spinning, even when my gears ran out - gave me the illusion of stability). Yes - the beauty of being a clydesdale on a downhill descent. Under my own power, I've never gotten above 28MPH, even on a mad sprint on the flats.
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| 2006-08-21 2:22 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Expert 919 | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 54.6 mph - not on the aero bars and brake slightly on. Very steep long hill, actually passed vehicles on the roadway. Pretty scary. |
| 2006-08-21 3:28 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Extreme Veteran 452 GA | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 40.1 mph in my last tri. it wasn't a steep hill, but i was coasting trying to save my legs and the speedo read 35 or 36, so i figured i'd try and get 40. i think if i had been pedaling hard at the top, i could have hit 44 or 45. next year i'll find out.  |
| 2006-08-21 3:51 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Extreme Veteran 412 Fort Worth | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? I live in Fort Worth Texas - pretty flat. However there is an over pass not too far from my house that I venture to take once in a while. I have been up to 45 mph before I run out of hill. Tell you what, my slowest speed is on the way back up that monster. Granny gear all the way at a blistering pace of 5 mph. I probably would have done better to get off and run up the thing! |
| 2006-08-21 6:05 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Master 1472 | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? Just got 37.8 MPH this Saturday. Scary as HELL! I guess if you do it enough it gets easier to tolerate but my God! |
| 2006-08-21 6:53 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Veteran 171 Jacksonville | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 38.7 mph on aerobars yesterday, but I put the breaks on, cause I was afraid of becoming a taco salad on the road. |
| 2006-08-21 7:05 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Extreme Veteran 644 Anaheim | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 49 mph, but I was drafting a Chevy Suburban. |
| 2006-08-21 9:01 PM in reply to: #82193 |
Veteran 238 | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 49.6 mph. I want to go faster.... |
| 2006-08-22 5:18 AM in reply to: #82193 |
Pro 5892 , New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? Last ride my Polar registred a max speed of 124kph (could have something to do with the power lines from the train track running parallell...) :-) I did go 84kph on the same ride though and that speed is correct. |
| 2006-08-22 9:19 AM in reply to: #82193 |
Expert 702 Manchester, NH | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 50.8 MPH at Timberman Sunday. Anything over 35, and I'm off my aerobars, and in my drops. |
| 2006-08-22 11:48 AM in reply to: #517617 |
Extreme Veteran 644 Anaheim | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? "45 mph during my race at lake arrowhead, CA on Saturday. I then hit my brakes to slow for a turn, and proceeded to fishtail. AHHHH. Pulled it together, after a dangerous swerve. I thought I knew how to handle a bike. Guess what, I don't." Hey thats the same hill I hit 49 on last year! I had a truck in front cutting the wind so I wasn't aware I was really going that fast until I looked at my cpu. If its the turn I'm thinking of, you have to make a 90 degree right turn at the bottom of the hill? It is a difficult turn, you have to brake early then beacause of the loose pebbles in the road you have to bring the bike more upright at the apex and lean more at the start and finish. Of course I figured that out after the race :P |
| 2006-08-22 6:02 PM in reply to: #82193 |
| Member 11 Central NJ | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? 42mph......only to come around a bend to a Stop sign! |
| 2006-08-23 9:52 AM in reply to: #82193 |
Extreme Veteran 347 Chapel Hill, North Carolina | Subject: RE: Fastest Bike Speed??? Broke my old PR of 43.7 just last Saturday on the BT group ride of the Duke Liver Center course with a 47.2! I was pedaling for all I was worth and loved every second of it. I'm going to try to top it during the race on September 10th. BTW, while reading this thread I started wondering what clown dug up a two year old post. Then I got to Rickholio. |
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