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Probably the stupidest but ulimately exhilarating thing I have done on a bike has been whilst very very pissed. It started out at 1 am in the morning after a massive piss up, yeah let's go for a rinse around town, there'll be hardly any cars and it's really quiet it'll be sick. We end up deciding it'll be a good idea to have races down Kingston Hill, this isn't the steepest hill but it's steep enough to really max out your speed as it's pretty long. By the time we've had a few practise runs we're bombing down at what must have been approaching 50mph (we were all spinning out on our topmost gear). Seeing the world go past you when you are riding a bike, and even moreso whilst pissed, is a fucking buzzing experience. It then turned into 'who can ride down in the most fun way' I opted for standing up, no hands, thighs gripping the saddle which was a real rush at the speeds we were going. After an hour or so of fucking around we decided to head off home when a car approached from behind going just a touch faster than we were all riding and I think there was a collective unconscious decision to race the car because we all sped up at the same time. We ended up all beating the car to the bottom and as we slowed up the car pulled up and slowed down with us and the guy rolled down his window and told us we were nutters and that at one point we were going 58 mph, he drove off laughing heartily.