Originally Posted by
colombo357
Required power increases exponentially with speed and wind resistance.
A rider hits 60mph on the steepest, straightest, longest descents only. It is very much unreasonable to expect them to even hit 50mph on many of these descents.
I have hit 51mph on descents in Florida while others were pulling slowly away from me. It is not at all unreasonable to do 50mph on descents in the mountains. It is probably a more reasonable statement that it is unreasonable to not hit 50mph on many mountain descents. I have trained in northern Georgia & ridden the descents very conservatively having to stay on the brakes in order to stay below 50.