Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
When I was young and dumb and full of ice cream I hit 90kmh on a descent... which is roughly 56mph.
The grade was steep enough to rate runaway lanes for trucks and I was pacing cars on the way down which really freaked out the drivers.
Around here the grades are not quite as steep and you might hit 75-80 before you have to brake for a corner or an intersection... one street is steep enough and long enough that I think you could break 50 pretty easily but it is a one way going up.
The switch in my brain that says "you are going to die" works much better now.
That's the advantage of being a junior. I went about 85kmh on a descent where the speed limit is 70, so everyone does 80. Got pulled over by the cops, didn't get a ticket, but got asked if they could check what my computer said, because they thought their radar gun was broken.