Top Speed?

Someone started a thread like this just a couple of weeks ago, didn't
they?

My top max fastest ever was coming down San Fransisquito Rd (10% grade,
smooth and straight) with a great tailwind. I reached at least 62.3 MPH
(100+ KPH)

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And a really low gear for the hills!"

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Hell and High Water said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

I've got a Trek cyclocomputer that showed me at 37 mph yesterday.

I'm curious about everyone else's...

TIA,

-Curious Bob

Upper 20s. That's plenty fast enough for me in an urban environment.

Hell and High Water said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

I've got a Trek cyclocomputer that showed me at 37 mph yesterday.

I'm curious about everyone else's...

TIA,

-Curious Bob

Up stairs, down stairs, or in my lady's chamber?

-jet

Hmm.. Depends on the incline.

Downhill about ~45mph.
Flat about ~33mph.

I gotta admit on the flats, it was only for a few seconds. I don't
know how the heck Cipollini & Pettachi do close to ~50mph.

Claude

C.H. Luu said:

Hmm.. Depends on the incline.

Downhill about ~45mph.
Flat about ~33mph.

I gotta admit on the flats, it was only for a few seconds. I don't
know how the heck Cipollini & Pettachi do close to ~50mph.

Claude

53x11?

(...or www.52x12.com ) (.''😉

jj

jj said:

C.H. Luu said:

Hmm.. Depends on the incline.

Downhill about ~45mph.
Flat about ~33mph.

I gotta admit on the flats, it was only for a few seconds. I don't
know how the heck Cipollini & Pettachi do close to ~50mph.

Claude

53x11?

(...or www.52x12.com ) (.''😉

jj

....would you believe www.53x12.com ? (d'oh)

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Hell and High Water said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

52-ish km/h is where I run out of gears on the middle chainring on my
hybridized mountain bike[1], and I've had it there a few times. I don't
often ride downhills long enough (and with a strong enough tailwind) to do
that, but one of these days I'll remember to shift up to the big chainring
for one of them to see how much faster that lets me go. That's 32-33mph.
(Two of the three hills I've done it on were 50 speed limit zones, too.)

I think peak cruising speeds are more interesting than one-time peaks...

For flats/no wind, when I'm fresh I can ride the closest to that that
I know how to find (tree-lined rails-to-trails MUP, nice even grade
and not much wind makes it through the trees under most conditions) I
can usually sustain 35ish km/h (22ish mph) for at least a few minutes,
and have probably been up to 40 (and now that I've claimed that, I'll
have to go try it while I'm watching for a peak speed on that stretch).
Was a bit surprised when I realized that not too long ago, since I'm
used to looking at averages over a 20km trip, which include slowing down
for road crossings (the trip timer stops when I stop moving, but isn't
smart enough to identify slowing down before the stop and only average
the cruising speed) and are usually closer to 25-26 km/h on a good day.
Can consistently hit 40, often higher, on lesser downhills when I'm
reasonably fresh and/or have a bit of a tailwind.

dave

[1] Was a mountain bike when it was new 15ish years ago, and probably
still when I bought it 5ish years ago. Is now tuned for road and
easy-trail riding. That makes it a hybrid, doesn't it?

--
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"Demons may fly out of your nose," often abbreviated as "nasal demons." The
important thing to remember is that it's intrinsically impossible to predict
which nostril they'll fly from. --Eric Sosman in comp.lang.c

Hell and High Water said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

49.8 mph. Montezuma Grade, East San Diego County. Too friggin' cold, windy
/and winding/ to keep an eye on the read-out, or I'd like to think I
could've squeezed that last .2 out of it.

Bladed spokes and side-winds made for an interesting descent...

Bill "hand-imprinted bar tape" S.

Hell and High Water asked:

Quoted message said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

Way back in the Twentieth Century, I did a 500-meter time trial in 37
seconds, for an average speed of 30.2mph.

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"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much
to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,
it has not died out." -- The Daily Telegraph (1877)

LioNiNoiL_a t_Y a h 0 0_d 0 t_c 0 m said:

Hell and High Water asked:

Quoted message said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

Way back in the Twentieth Century, I did a 500-meter time trial in 37
seconds, for an average speed of 30.2mph.

How do you start on something like that? Rolling start? If a standing start
that's something!

jj

"Hell and High Water" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

I've got a Trek cyclocomputer that showed me at 37 mph yesterday.

I'm curious about everyone else's...

TIA,

-Curious Bob

I hit 54 mph this year on a decent while on a double century (that ride had
16,000 feet of descending). Previously 51 mph had been my all time highest
speed. I've hit 34 on flat ground in sprints by myself a couple of times
(haven't been able to repeat that in a few years) and 38 on flat ground
behind a bus one time (that was recent). I hit mid 40s at least once a week
on the descents around here. It's hilly here, I get to spend between 15 and
25+ miles per week at speeds over 32 mph, and that many miles at speeds less
than 8 mph 🙂 .

Hell and High Water said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

I managed to break my speed records when I was riding on the Alps
earlier this month. The best I managed was exactly 80.0 km/h (49.7 mph)
on the descent from Ofenpass in Switzerland. This was done without
pedaling on a racing bike, knees together, hands on the drops and chin
on the handlebar. I managed to touch 75 km/h on many other descents,
but 80 km/h only once.

I know many other people have managed to go significantly faster down
hill. It's probably due to better wind conditions, more aerodynamic
position (hands in the middle of the bar), a heavier rider (I'm barely
130 lbs) or some combination of these factors. I don't think pedaling
makes any difference at these speeds.

-as

I love this topic. I beat my old top speed recently.

48x11 gears.

Downhill: 46.5 MPH
And actually made it up this hill without stopping!

Flat: ~30 MPH

Getting better every day since I quit the filthy smoking habit 6
weeks ago.

~Rob

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Quoted message said:

Hell and High Water said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

49.8 mph. Montezuma Grade, East San Diego County. Too friggin' cold,
windy /and winding/ to keep an eye on the read-out, or I'd like to think I
could've squeezed that last .2 out of it.

My experience is that I stop getting tenths of a mile out of my cateye over
50 mph.

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Well here in flat Florida, I got up to 22.2 on a hardtail mtb with city
tires.

Ken

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"Bill Sornson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hell and High Water said:

Not that it matters, but what's your top speed??

49.8 mph. Montezuma Grade, East San Diego County. Too friggin' cold,
windy /and winding/ to keep an eye on the read-out, or I'd like to think I
could've squeezed that last .2 out of it.

My experience is that I stop getting tenths of a mile out of my cateye over
50 mph.

If I ever hit 50, I can almost guarantee that I will *NOT* be looking at
my computer....

;-)

-Bob

Hell and High Water said:

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"Bill Sornson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

49.8 mph. Montezuma Grade, East San Diego County. Too friggin' cold,
windy /and winding/ to keep an eye on the read-out, or I'd like to think I
could've squeezed that last .2 out of it.

My experience is that I stop getting tenths of a mile out of my cateye over
50 mph.

If I ever hit 50, I can almost guarantee that I will *NOT* be looking at
my computer....

Nice thing about some 'puters is that you can check out the max speed
later. (I usually have better things to look at over 35.)

Pat

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Nice thing about some 'puters is that you can check out the max speed
later. (I usually have better things to look at over 35.)

Pat

Exactly! That's often the first thing I check when I get home.

-Bob

JJ asked:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Way back in the Twentieth Century, I did a 500-meter
time trial in 37 seconds, for an average speed of 30.2mph.

How do you start on something like that? Rolling start?

No: standing start, pulling up on the 'bar and mashing down on the
pedal, praying that nothing breaks.

--
"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much
to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,
it has not died out." -- The Daily Telegraph (1877)