Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
Me too. It's odd.
It's quite routine for racers to go this fast. There were some fast long straight descents near wear I grew up that allowed higher speeds than this. We would routinely play peg the speedo on them (65). It was just doable by sprinting into them and using full tuck.
That said I suppose if you are not confident at that sort of speed, it would be unwise to go that fast.
Being a solo rider the idea of riding in a paceline or gasp, a peleton scares me.
I remember the one time I saw the Tour de France. It was '86 I think, the time they came through Karlsruhe Germany. You had this sudden rush of a mass of riders, going really fast, on a narrow german street, and through a curve. I was like, "how do they not crash into each other"???
