What's your top speed?

It makes Lemond look like a genetic aberration, but at the other end of the bell curve to what was previously reported.

It's quite surprising how many people on here apparently have the physiology that would have enabled them to have a career as pro cyclists. Very sensible of you all to choose the safety and security of an office job and save your talents for commuting.

I had the physiology but not the appetite for drugs.

I'm so fucking fast... i get to work/pubs in next to no time at all.

I heard that sometimes Ray arrives at his destination before he's left his departure point. He is that freakin' fast.

I had the physiology but not the appetite for drugs.

Do you never get tired of being called a liar? :)

I heard that sometimes Ray arrives at his destination before he's left his departure point. He is that freakin' fast.

no that's impossible.... but plausible

Do you never get tired of being called a liar? :)

I may on occasions, be somewhat liberal with the actualite.

Putting it in italics won't stop Oliver pointing out the missing accent; that is, when he has stopped cruising at 20-25 mph :)

weird cos ive got an appetite for drugs and in no way have the physiology... gets in the way of my mallet and skirt anyway. speed fail.

i dont have my own comp, but i did borrow one for a couple of days to test my commute in cornwall.

max speed ive reached was 63mph downhill on my heavy 82gi SS, fully tucked in. i did that hill everyday up and down, but had no idea i was hitting 50+ speeds. i couldnt ride that hill without eye protection.

on the flats i could hit 35 if i was really pushing it.

im going to get one of those knog puters when they are about, as i think i have vastly improved scince then.

Wow i'm slow, I think about 30 is my max on the flats, this drag sprint on friday should be pretty awesome.

Anything over 30 mph ( in traffic ) and dreadful thoughts enter my head - probably an innate sense of danger kicks in before some cow walks out in front of me ...

Just don't think about what could happen if you puncture...

or worse, poorly fitted tubular.

Anything over 30 mph ( in traffic ) and dreadful thoughts enter my head - probably an innate sense of danger kicks in before some cow walks out in front of me ...

hah true thing, i was proper sprinting close to a 30 fo sure down a straight the other day, brakeless, and some dude decided its a great idea to park his van in a narrow cycle lane.
Dont care much about that, but the car infront of the traffic in a single lane on my right has to stop before it can overtake the van cause of the oncoming traffic. That car stops so close to the parked van that i only have about half a meter of space to zig zag through between them. I was pretty lucky i fit through, because i knew that i wouldnt be able to stop in time at that speed. I must have still been going 25 when i almost scrapped both the cars.

45 tunnel of doom

i dont have my own comp, but i did borrow one for a couple of days to test my commute in cornwall.
max speed ive reached was 63mph downhill on my heavy 82gi SS, fully tucked in. i did that hill everyday up and down, but had no idea i was hitting 50+ speeds. i couldnt ride that hill without eye protection.
on the flats i could hit 35 if i was really pushing it.
m going to get one of those knog puters when they are about, as i think i have vastly improved scince then.

Next time you really should calibrate it for the bike its fitted to.

You were doing 45 on tunnel of doom? It felt fast but because there was less air down there I wasn't getting the stinging in my eyes I normally get when I'm close to 40.

i hit 50 up near my fathers on some back roads. it was scary, wish i had brakes. or a helmet. what a bad idea...

i hit 50 up near my fathers on some back roads. it was scary, wish i had brakes. or a helmet. what a bad idea...

50 on a fixed? or brakeless on a freewheel?

i hit 50 up near my fathers on some back roads. it was scary, wish i had brakes. or a helmet. what a bad idea...

What gearing were you using?

There's some crazy speeds being clocked up there peeps. Like a few others I'm claiming a more modest 42 mph on my geared hybred down hill, (fast enough to brownen my pants -but that could have been the corner at the bottom of the hill I didn't know I could make). Could get up to 30-32mph (briefly) on the flat with a tail wind. There's no way I reach those speeds on the fixed but no pooter to tell me either way.

Currently pushing 42:16 and got some massive 35c tyres (hangover from the Tweed Run), I'm so slow but never felt so comfortable.

47mph, downhill, on road, on a mountain bike, to crash.

Can we have your liver then?

You wouldn't want it, but 10 points for knowing your Python.

On my Tricross Singlecross (with 48:18) I managed to hit 38.2mph last weekend, on a downhill.

Fastest ever was 51.0mph on my Sirrus, downhill in top (50:11) last August at the Nurburgring in Germany.

47mph this summer on a Mtb with mud tyres on! going down a road in Wales! felt amazing and i still wonder how fast it could have been on a road bike?!?!!