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Originally Posted by Murrays
Coasting. With a 54-11, I think our top pedaling speed would be around 35-40.

-murray
Topspeed off road for us is 53.8 but this is over fairly smooth grass with just a few dips to take the stomach away and a few rabbit holes to steer round. Daft thing is our highest recorded speed to date on the road is slower at 52.8, but that was with traffic getting in the way. Last week we decided to see what we could get up to on the road, as we had slicks fitted and we got up to 45.8mph. We were still pushing on the pedals to 40mph but not much going in after that. Gearing 24/36/48 and 11/32. Makes it worse is that this is a mountain Tandem with 26" wheels, and yes the computer had been corrected for the tyre difference.. Admittedly we had a run downhill to start, but the 45.8 was recorded on the flat. I do not want to spin that fast for very long ever again.
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