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@pascalo
I watched "Hell on Wheels" the other day. In there they said people get up to 95kmph on the descends from the highest points in the Alps.
There is one part where you see historic pictures of the tour, and the riders get Newspapers handed by the bystanders, so that they can stuff them into the jerseys on the descends they don't freeze their ass off.
At some point there is Aldag saying something like "If you think about whether it's a smart thing to go down some windy road at 95kmph, with only 2 little patches 21mm tyres to carry you ... probably not ... but in a race situation you cannot really think about that."
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