Originally Posted by
ETN612
I actually do this already sometimes when I start up from a stoplight! Luckily, Minneapolis is pretty flat. There are many good places for this kind of thing up here. In particular, Portland Avenue is an absolutely straight one-way that runs from downtown through the city's entire south side to the southern city limits. It has a bike lane that is as wide as a car lane for most of the length of the road. Same with Park Avenue, which runs parallel to Portland and is the exact same except it just runs northbound towards downtown instead of southbound away from downtown. The blocks are long blocks too so you have ample time to stop after you get up to speed if one doesn't have a brake. There's been instances where i've hit literally every green light from downtown to the city limits and was able to cook along at ~35 mph (don't have a bike computer but was moving at the pace of car traffic in a 30MPH zone and had multiple people shout out their windows at me that I was "going like, 35, dude!") for a loooong time without having to stop. Good times
Please, you need a brake. And to find a training stretch without intersections or parked cars. That is a usually a tall order.
Also, if you have left room for error in this kind of effort, you've not done it hard enough.