What's your top speed?

[quote=]Can we have your liver then?[/quote]

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

second dibs please if you split

it was calibrated. are you suggesting im lying? to be honest i think this forum is a bit above lying about silly things like top speed.

anyone with the right hill, road, and bike can go crazy fast, it just a case of overcoming the fear. i road that hill everyday scince i started riding a bike as an adult. i also set the bike up myself so have complete confidence in it not exploding.

What gearing were you using?
52:13.
the roads behind my dads are pretty empty and pretty hilly. the spot i hit is a long gradual (though semi steep) curve by the lake.i just looked and the top speed on my computer was 48.6, so i guess not quite 50. other than that i've never hit over 30.

I'm suggesting your speedo is being very generous.
It's not a case of overcoming the fear. It's a case of overcoming wind resistance.
It must've been a fucking steep and long hill since you can't have been pedaling at that speed.

second dibs please if you split

I'll let you know.

52:13.
the roads behind my dads are pretty empty and pretty hilly. the spot i hit is a long gradual (though semi steep) curve by the lake.i just looked and the top speed on my computer was 48.6, so i guess not quite 50. other than that i've never hit over 30.

You run 52/13 brakeless in a hilly area?
Self-preservation not high on your todo list then?

I'm suggesting your speedo is being very generous.
It's not a case of overcoming the fear. It's a case of overcoming wind resistance.
It must've been a fucking steep and long hill since you can't have been pedaling at that speed.

trust me it wasn't my legs. the country roads there are nuts.

trust me it wasn't my legs. the country roads there are nuts.

That was for melon, not you.

These threads always turn out the same way.. tomorrow's highest speed will be 118kph hit on the Uxbridge Road when someone's bag strap accidentally got caught in a police van door...

These threads always turn out the same way.. tomorrow's highest speed will be 118kph hit on the Uxbridge Road when someone's bag strap accidentally got caught in a police van door...

Actually I was planning to use that tonight...

Too late, since riding home tonight my speedo said 1283.657kph which, once ratified, will be added to the Guinness book of records. Sorry Thrust SSC.. [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record[/ame]

I skitched a photon ealier.

670,616,700 mph

Sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-za2v8XPM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-za2v8XPM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-za2v8XPM

Pah. Suspension and it's not fixed.

I want to see him fixed and pull a skid that speed

I was riding home from a party along a clear road at about 2am when a mate came up behind me in his car and told me I was doing 22mph. I was totally surprised - didn't realise I could go that fast and wasn't even at top speed so I put the hammer down and he told me I had hit 30. I was quite shocked, especially as a few minutes ago I had been riding the fastest I have ever been on a bike (geared or not) down Barnet Hill. I was partly terrified because I was spinning so fast, but because the road was empty I thought I'd push it as hard as I could manage - my guess would be close to 40mph on 42/16.

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- Gravity Bike Testing - 100kph[/ame]

Riding in a bunch down into Brighton, two of us were spinning madly on 42x16 and, according to riders with computers we were nudging 35mph before the other fixed rider's chain came off. We slowed down at that point.

Ask Fixedwheelnut though - I think he's hit 40mph on fixed.

With a freewheel, as has been said, you're limited by the road and your nerves. I've never broken the 45mph barrier but hit 44.7 on Westerham Hill years ago.

October 2007 41mph on 48 x 18 with 23c tyres 67.3" = 205rpm

It is the only time I have topped 200rpm and probably only a nano second as I maxed out at the lower end of the hill.

On the flat it was about 32 at 160rpm, pub sprint, "the real trackies can beat that easily.

In the days of gears 51mph early 90s on the Action 100 Bath to London ride, I even had my feet tucked in on the top of the chainrings and bricked it once I saw I was over 50.

In the days of gears 51mph early 90s on the Action 100 Bath to London ride, I even had my feet tucked in on the top of the chainrings and bricked it once I saw I was over 50.

I did that ride last year, nice route! What section was that on, I dont remember any hills that scary!?

It was early on near Bristol, my mate Ray just started sprinting away at the top so I just raced him down :) I stopped pedalling at 42 in 52 x 12.
I remember a set of traffic lights near the botttom was part of the reason I bricked it in case they changed.

I hit 44.92 mph going along embankment the other day, I think I could have gone faster though, with 51x18 gearing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpxJWAJbFM

I hit 44.92 mph going along embankment the other day, I think I could have gone faster though, with 51x18 gearing.

Fekkin ell thats around 202rpm on the flat you spin meister

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

Putting it in italics won't stop Oliver pointing out the missing accent

Andy, you are abusing your liberté a bit.

I mean, it's no skin off my nose, but if you want to be poncy, do it properly. ;)

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

That happens to me sometimes, too, usually when the destination is identical with the departure point.