ph4nt0mf1ng3rs

ive topped out at 45mph, being unable to spin at uncomfortably high speeds. As some others have said before, at around that speed personally, I start to be at the edge of my comfort zone and thoughts of skidding on conrete or running into cars that can't see me start rushing through my head. The best descent in my area imho is actually a residential road. It is made up of two pretty decent descents: one at 20% and one at 17%. Few stop signs along the way and incredibly narrow with cars in the lane AND parked cars along the curb.

zonatandem

53 mph on our tandem near Springerville, AZ in the White Mountains.
Have crashed, on my single, at 38 mph in Logan Canyon, UT due to harmonic vibration.
No fun and a broken humurus (shoulder bone).
Now at age 81 keep my descenst down to below the 30 mph mark.

trek330

43.2mph.

Homebrew01

55 which was scary because the road has fairly sharp curves.
Another 50 + downhill is much straighter, so no big deal.

utahp8ntballer

53.3 mph on a 2010 Fuji SST 2.0. It was so smooth I couldn't believe it. Scared me as soon as I looked at the Garmin though and applied some brake.
Here is the copy from Ridewithgps I uploaded from Garmin 500

UnfilteredDregs

Yeah, I should have qualified that... just the app (Strava) and a phone isn't a good recipe for accurate speed tracking, a sensor is a must IMO.

UnfilteredDregs

tigat

48 mph multiple times, the most recent of which was on the west side of Loveland Pass, where I was passed by a number of riders. A few of the big boys sounded like semis going by.

igosolo

Umm no. You must not be a tall clyde. I am a 6'6, 230 lbs and not 30 lbs overweight, not on a tri bike and certainly not at 6K feet, no tailwind feet and I can hit 50+ easily and need to brake to not go faster. 52 MPH is my fastest on a shortish 15% grade with braking. Anymore though I don't usually go over 45ish because I am losing my nerve in my 40s.

jeff@work

52 mph descending Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah. I'm 6'1 170 lbs and the summer I lived by there I routinely hit 50 mph on my road bike. It's quite easy to do on a relatively straight descent with around an 8-10% grade.

Homebrew01

Plenty of relatively short but steep hills here.

Heathpack 

??? I am a woman, so not very big, and I topped out at 48.8 mph this past weekend on a long, straight, not that steep (maybe 8%) section of road. Good pavement, no wind, probably 2000 ft elevation, just a road bike (well, it's actually a Magic Bike, but no aerobars is my point), Garmin data. I like to go downhill fast but I'm not exactly a hammer type. My HR was 155 at the time, a zone 3 or tempo effort. So if I can do it given those conditions, I'm not sure that it's too hard to do.

Jiggle

I have been so fast that it is literally too fast to post on this forum.

Machka 

80 km/h.

Heathpack 

Translating that to American: 49.7 mph. See? Girls rule.

calyco

40 mph for me, at first I was nervous as well but I built up confidence gradually. Like already said I get into the drops and just relax, thats the best thing you can do. I assembled my bike from the box and made sure everything was done correctly and screwed down everything tight. It helped since I understood where everything went and how it was supposed to work. Then I doubled checked.

hamster

6'6 and 230 lbs is more than 30 lbs overweight (BMI 21.5 would put you at about 185 lbs). But it's possible that being that tall makes it easier for you because weight scales faster than aerodynamic drag.

This is California, and, unless you ride in the middle of the night, you can assume that there's wind. You won't feel it when you're rolling dowhill at 45-50 mph, and you may not even feel it when you're going up, but it will still be there. Checking that specific hill on that day, I see a number of people breaking 50, so it's likely that the wind was downhill. Notice that, on the following day, you had some good downhills in 7-8% range you couldn't even get to 40.

Here's a comparable local hill around here (disregard Strava elevation profile - it's actually straight downhill and somewhere around 8% for the most part): Strava Segment | TOVR Speed Trap Here's a random attempt from this week: Bike Ride Profile | This Ride sounded WAY better last night?Cooked, Toasted, Burnt and Fried (me and Coronado Hills) near Carlsbad | Times and Records | Strava This person tops out at 42 mph and it's clearly not because the hill is too short (she sits at 40-42 for 30 seconds).

TheSame

49.9 mph according to the Garmin. typically.. i'm more in the 40-45mph range.

Strava top speeds are very off. My friend's has read 55mph.. when in reality, his was probably closer to 45mph.

coasting 

58 mph.


not doing it again. dumb as dumb can be.

coasting 

when you go super fast, you are just trusting to luck that you dont hit something innocuous that causes you to slip. a patch of loose gravel, a few wet leaves, some sand, a crack in the road.

shudder.

GhostSS

+1

And they say Tri-bikes are the only ones covered in piss....

Ghazmh

40 mph is the top end of my comfort spectrum. Even then I fear a car pulling in front of me( it's happened before), blow out, or some kind of calamity prevents me from enjoying the experience of going faster.

Heathpack 

Lol. Are you stalking me? Pray tell, how do you know what hill I rode that day, what speed other people rode at, and what hills I rode the following day? Do I know you yet not realize I know you?

GoRacers

Strava/iPhone 42mph. We don't have many hills.

II Holland II

Just broke my record the other day. At a dead stop went down the hill with out pedaling and managed to reach 84.7km/h. I did not pedal because of it being my first time ever going down the hill but next time I will for sure and see how much of a difference it makes.