Record speed!

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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into the
town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the same
stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a mile too early for the
'best' speed.

Phil

I got 53mph down Ditchling Beacon .. I want a road bike too now 🙂 I reckon I can top 70mph .. 😉

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"Phil.Winterbourne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into
the town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the
same stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a mile too early for the
'best' speed.

Phil

I got 53mph down Ditchling Beacon .. I want a road bike too now 🙂 I

reckon

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I can top 70mph .. 😉

Dont u guys get scared - i do and im prolly only doin 20!

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"Phil.Winterbourne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into
the town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the
same stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a mile too early for the
'best' speed.

Phil

I got 53mph down Ditchling Beacon .. I want a road bike too now 🙂 I

reckon

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I can top 70mph .. 😉

Yikes. Skinny wheels at 70? I'd rather have nice squishy 1.5"ers. Road bikes are good for making
30mph hills into 40mph hills, but I'd be wary of doing much above that on a regular basis.

I managed to do 84.9kph on a rather fun roller-coaster roman road. Didn't even have to put the
brakes on to get back to a sensible speed. (and that was before an excellent road that gets steeper
and steeper but still disappears into a dip. (77kph)

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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into
the town.

Which road was that?

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I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't sure
if there were any side roads so I started breaking

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Oh dear - I hope nothing fell off?

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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into the
town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the same
stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a mile too early for the
'best' speed.

Phil

Huh - and I thought I'd done well at 38.9mph! That wasn't scary though - straight road, no
junctions, bike felt extremely stable. Surprised I managed it with 2.6 tyres though. Mebbe that the
bike weighs about 36lb helped.

I might have done faster on my skinny tyred (with 65 psi) steel rigid since, but it ain't got a
'pooter on it yet.

Shaun aRe - good going Phil.

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"Phil.Winterbourne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into
the town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the
same stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round

the

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last bend and wasn't sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a
mile too early for the 'best' speed.

Phil

I got 53mph down Ditchling Beacon .. I want a road bike too now 🙂 I

reckon

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I can top 70mph .. 😉

Dont u guys get scared - i do and im prolly only doin 20!

I get bored if I'm doing less than as fast as I can go. Of course, I do this without hacking through
one-way streets the wrong way, on pavements and the like. As and when I fall off at this speed, I
may get 'the fear', but not yet .... Still coming off at 20 is as dangerous as any faster speed IMO.

Phil.Winterbourne said:

last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into the
town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the same
stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a mile too early for the
'best' speed.

Phil

You really shouldn't hold on to the traffic for a tow you know.... hehe

I once (in my youth) managed 40mph down Wallington High Street at 4am, on my way back from the
girlfriends place. Scared the cr@p out of me (the speed, not the girlfriend - although, now I come
to mention it...) and have never attempted to repeat the experience. Of course, that was in the days
before digital computers - I had one of those ancient cable driven speedos - so was probably
hopelessly inaccurate. I was always rather amused that the dial went up to 70mph.

Way to old and fat for speed records now of course... 😉

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"Phil.Winterbourne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into the
town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the same
stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a mile too early for the
'best' speed.

Phil

I got 53mph down Ditchling Beacon .. I want a road bike too now 🙂 I

reckon

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I can top 70mph .. 😉

Dont u guys get scared - i do and im prolly only doin 20!

I was terrified when I got to 17mph down a fairly long hill. Recently, I was terrified when I got to
6mph on a very steep hill.

Last weekend I was screaming 'Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!' mentally to myself as I pedalled down a lovely
hill to get to 22mph ;-)

Being comfortable with the bike's balance and reach of the bars, and also making sure it's a hill
without the need to brake hard at the bottom (ie, has a hill going up the other side, doesn't stop
at a junction or a sharp bend etc) is a nice one to try such things on.

I'm no longer terrified of speed downhill, as long as it's on the right sort of hill, and not
horribly steep (like those around where I live tend to be!)

Velvet

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Dont u guys get scared - i do and im prolly only doin 20!

Maybe I am just getting old, but I am inclined to start thinking things like "What if my forks broke
and I went head first into the road at 40mph"

Mind you, I am a woosy female!!! No doubt all you guys on here are fearless (:

Maureen

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Dont u guys get scared - i do and im prolly only doin 20!

Maybe I am just getting old, but I am inclined to start thinking things

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"What if my forks broke and I went head first into the road at 40mph"

Mind you, I am a woosy female!!! No doubt all you guys on here are

fearless (:

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Maureen

Fearless, until I have to talk to a nice looking woman ... then I'd prefer to be on my bike at 50mph
... the opposite way ... 😉

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I get bored if I'm doing less than as fast as I can go. Of course, I do

this

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without hacking through one-way streets the wrong way, on pavements and

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like. As and when I fall off at this speed, I may get 'the fear', but not yet .... Still coming
off at 20 is as dangerous as any faster speed IMO.

And thats why i get scared - coming off has gotta hurt!

Are these speeds downhill or on the flat? I tend to get really nervous going at speed downhill,
I have managed 30mph on the flat on a mountain bike. What is a respectable non-wind/hill
assisted speed?

Paul

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"Phil.Winterbourne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into the
town. This is a personal best & I'm well chuffed. One day I'll buy a road bike & try the same
stretch :-)

I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking about 1/4 of a mile too early for the
'best' speed.

Phil

I got 53mph down Ditchling Beacon .. I want a road bike too now 🙂 I reckon I can top 70mph .. 😉

Wow! 51.5 is the best I've managed.
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last night on a pleasant little loop near Otley I managed 47.6 mph on the last road back into
the town.

Which road was that?

I can't see a road number on the map - It's the yellow road down the Chevin running NW crossing over
the bypass at the bottom. Straight on and Chevin Cycles is on the right.

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I could probably have gone a little faster, but I couldn't see round the last bend and wasn't
sure if there were any side roads so I started breaking

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Oh dear - I hope nothing fell off?

LOL

Phil

Paul said:

Are these speeds downhill or on the flat? I tend to get really nervous going at speed downhill,
I have managed 30mph on the flat on a mountain bike. What is a respectable non-wind/hill
assisted speed?

Paul

'Very' downhill, the best I've got on the flat is about 24 mph & that's going as fast as I could in
top gear. I think there was a bit of a tail wind as well :-)

Phil

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Dont u guys get scared - i do and im prolly only doin 20!

Maybe I am just getting old, but I am inclined to start thinking things

like

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"What if my forks broke and I went head first into the road at 40mph"

Mind you, I am a woosy female!!! No doubt all you guys on here are

fearless (:

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Maureen

Thats exactly my point! I think things like that - think ill be on the local news "CYCLIST CRIPPLED
RIDING TOO FAST", i see photo's of myself splattered!!!

Maybe IM just weird!

Velvet said:

Last weekend I was screaming 'Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!' mentally to myself as I pedalled down a
lovely hill to get to 22mph ;-)

Last time I heard a cyclist screech something like that as he went down a hill the screech turned
into a scream as he came off his bike and slid into a hedgerow on a bend.
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Maureen said:

"Lee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Dont u guys get scared - i do and im prolly only doin 20!

Maybe I am just getting old, but I am inclined to start thinking things like "What if my forks
broke and I went head first into the road at 40mph"

Mind you, I am a woosy female!!! No doubt all you guys on here are fearless (:

Maureen

It's mental discipline - just don't think bad thoughts. Also as I was on a MTB with nice wide bars
control is easy I bet I'd need to get confident on a raod bike before trying something like that.

BTW it's not that blokes are fearless - we just can't multi-task and so can;t worry and ride at the
same time :-)

Phil

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Velvet said:

Last weekend I was screaming 'Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!' mentally to myself as I pedalled down a
lovely hill to get to 22mph ;-)

Last time I heard a cyclist screech something like that as he went down a hill the screech turned
into a scream as he came off his bike and slid into a hedgerow on a bend.
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Ah, that'll be why I am more cautious when the hill ends in a bend then ;-) And why I keep my
'wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' inside my head, where no-one else can hear it, so they don't laugh when the
day comes that I *do* fall off :-)

Velvet