Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

When is any one doing 50kph+ on gravel?

step off bro

i don't ride gravel often but just looked at my strava ride for the dirty reiver earlier this year and I hit 50+ a few times, max speed was 60.8.

I don't consider myself a particulary skilled descender on gravel so wouldn't be surprised to learn that more experienced riders were regularly exceeding this too.

I hit 50+ a few times, max speed was 60.8.

Not to get into this again but you probably weren't pedalling, right? Just hanging on for dear life at that point

Edit: probably the flat bits near the Water are pretty fast at a guess?

dirty reiver

After doing a bit of riding round there have to say this sounds amazing. Recommended?

was my only bike for a few years

i think the only reason to have such tall gears is if you regularly use it as a road bike. basically the only time i use 50/11 is in road races or when sprinting before tucking on a downhill. now that i have an actual road race bike it'd be fine to give up both of those things.

Those speeds are from your GPS device presumably?

https://www.strava.com/activities/1522953743#38032334033

That's the top dude on Strava; he did about 60 kph as well, second guy did 64 kph, third guy did 63 kph

"Segment": https://www.strava.com/segments/17450652

The point is that GPS is notoriously poor for calculating speed - I'd take any speed recorded using it with a pinch of salt.

It's true. Mine consistently reads 3-4mph slower than I'm actually moving.

If you hit 88kph you'll got back to '91 where this is the coolest bike

MPH you cultural degenerate. MPH.

Great Scott!

(OT): Are you local to Utrecht? What's a good cycling/roadie cafe hangout there these days? I'm going to be light touring to the Domstad next week, and it's nearly 20 years since I lived there.

I am local, but I really wouldn't know a real roadie cafe right now.. The best bicycle store in town does have some coffee and tea, but it hasn't been to busy for coffee. You could check it out: https://goo.gl/maps/eTXs4EKUMER2

Yep, 88 french miles per hour

Ta - will check it out if I get the chance!

Definitely recommended. Not sure about packing all those riders on to what are pretty narrow forest tracks at some points but the riding is undoubtedly superb. Road riding looks pretty good too.

Been doing some N. Herts bridleways, lots of gravel, some dried mud. After 2 weeks I had to rest my butt on pure road yesterday.

And thats on a 29er, 100mm fork with 2.2s and spinning out on 34:11

How anyone can ride one of these (relatively) skinny tyred drop bar rigid bikes at speed on this stuff is beyond me.

I'm very glad i could be a part in starting this absolutely pointless dick waving chat. Bravo lads, Bravo

(BTW i regularly hit 90kph on a world cup downhil course on my audax tandem)

Brklss fixed, with an average cadence of 300rpm.

If you have one foot on your pedal and one foot on the stoker's cranks, it actually counts as 600rpm #science

bet i can wave my dick faster than you can

Bitch please.
You must have a smaller dick than me, or not get tired of waving it.
There is a local park I like to take my bike to, I often get my dick out and let the big dick energy radiate slowly as I wave it from left to right letting all the people bask in its glory.
I can probably manage maybe 10 full swings every minute, that's with an 87 degree slope with a gradient of about 25%.