Top Speed?

57 mph descending Towne Pass in the 1989 Death Valley to Mt Whitney road
race. I was very scared.
--
mark

Michael J. Klein said:

Bob, once, with the wind at my back and for some unknown reason while
entertaining some notion to pedal as hard as I could, my GPS showed
that I reached 38 MPH on my mountain bike, on a flat section of road.
It was not sustainable.

Michael,

Did you crouch down or otherwise try for an aerodynamic position? I'd
imagine the air resistance alone to be pretty fierce, not to mention the
rolling resistance from knobby tires (unless you had on slicks).

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

Bob, once, with the wind at my back and for some unknown reason while
entertaining some notion to pedal as hard as I could, my GPS showed
that I reached 38 MPH on my mountain bike, on a flat section of road.
It was not sustainable.

Michael J. Klein & Asian Castings Consortium
[email hidden]
Yangmei Jen (Hukou), Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC
Please replace mousepotato with asiancastings
---------------------------------------------

Bill Henry said:

Michael J. Klein said:

Bob, once, with the wind at my back and for some unknown reason while
entertaining some notion to pedal as hard as I could, my GPS showed
that I reached 38 MPH on my mountain bike, on a flat section of road.
It was not sustainable.

Michael,

Did you crouch down or otherwise try for an aerodynamic position? I'd
imagine the air resistance alone to be pretty fierce, not to mention the
rolling resistance from knobby tires (unless you had on slicks).

Bill, i did not do a crouch as the wind was blowing hard from the
rear. as i recall, i did not feel the wind resist me, to to speak,
and i was in top gear on a flat road (at night) and hopefully
sustained that speed long enough to make the GPS speed measurement
accurate. i did not have slicks, but the Michellin knobbies. if it
weren't for that tailwind I would have had a top speed of considerably
less I would think. btw, most of the streets here are very small and
there are not so many straightaways where one can get up to speed.
but i do like the interesting neighborhoods and places to check out.
i have never ridden that fast since.

Michael J. Klein & Asian Castings Consortium
[email hidden]
Yangmei Jen (Hukou), Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC
Please replace mousepotato with asiancastings
---------------------------------------------