Gravity Bike + worl road downhill speed record ?
05-14-04, 07:42 AM
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Gravity Bike + worl road downhill speed record ?
Hello there!
I want to present my new web www.gravityspain.com about Gravity Bike ( road downhill with adapted BMX's without pedals ).
It has a nice photo gallery and thre breathtaking on board videos... I hope you like it !
We've reached 92 Km/h = 58 Mph and we expect to reach 130 Km/h = 81 Mph
Does anyone know which is the road cycling top speed world record on a downhill ?
I know that Outchakov clocked 114 Km/h = 71 Mph in a Giro de Italia downhill...
Thank you...
Capi
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I want to present my new web www.gravityspain.com about Gravity Bike ( road downhill with adapted BMX's without pedals ).
It has a nice photo gallery and thre breathtaking on board videos... I hope you like it !
We've reached 92 Km/h = 58 Mph and we expect to reach 130 Km/h = 81 Mph
Does anyone know which is the road cycling top speed world record on a downhill ?
I know that Outchakov clocked 114 Km/h = 71 Mph in a Giro de Italia downhill...
Thank you...
Capi
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05-14-04, 10:28 AM
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You mean this guy?
https://www.bikeforums.net/mountain-biking/45201-107mph-wreck.html
Wrecked at 107mph going down a volcano.
https://www.bikeforums.net/mountain-biking/45201-107mph-wreck.html
Wrecked at 107mph going down a volcano.
Originally Posted by capi
Hello there!
I want to present my new web www.gravityspain.com about Gravity Bike ( road downhill with adapted BMX's without pedals ).
It has a nice photo gallery and thre breathtaking on board videos... I hope you like it !
We've reached 92 Km/h = 58 Mph and we expect to reach 130 Km/h = 81 Mph
Does anyone know which is the road cycling top speed world record on a downhill ?
I know that Outchakov clocked 114 Km/h = 71 Mph in a Giro de Italia downhill...
Thank you...
Capi
SPAIN
I want to present my new web www.gravityspain.com about Gravity Bike ( road downhill with adapted BMX's without pedals ).
It has a nice photo gallery and thre breathtaking on board videos... I hope you like it !
We've reached 92 Km/h = 58 Mph and we expect to reach 130 Km/h = 81 Mph
Does anyone know which is the road cycling top speed world record on a downhill ?
I know that Outchakov clocked 114 Km/h = 71 Mph in a Giro de Italia downhill...
Thank you...
Capi
SPAIN
05-16-04, 01:14 PM
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In March of 1998 when Christian Taillefer of France headed down a Glacier at the Speed Ski Slope in Vars, France, he maintained control of all of his wheels on this icy slope while setting a new speed record of 132 mph
(this next guy cheated in my opinion, and dosent deserve all the records he holds. Slipstream, ha with no wind it would be like I set my roller stand to nothing and just clicked into a tall ass gear)
Fastest Bicycle Speed
The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 268.831 km/h (167.043 mph), by Fred Rompelberg (The Netherlands) at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, on October 3, 1995. His record attempt was greatly assisted by the slipstream from his lead vehicle.
(this next guy cheated in my opinion, and dosent deserve all the records he holds. Slipstream, ha with no wind it would be like I set my roller stand to nothing and just clicked into a tall ass gear)
Fastest Bicycle Speed
The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 268.831 km/h (167.043 mph), by Fred Rompelberg (The Netherlands) at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, on October 3, 1995. His record attempt was greatly assisted by the slipstream from his lead vehicle.
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Originally Posted by slvoid
You mean this guy?
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=45201
Wrecked at 107mph going down a volcano.
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=45201
Wrecked at 107mph going down a volcano.
05-16-04, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Maelstrom
That was on a custom mtb on a volcano...no roadie there.
05-16-04, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by slvoid
I think it's pretty cool to bomb down at 100+mph, roadie or not.
and yeah...the frame was wrecked. The guy is lucky he didn't die.
05-17-04, 02:16 AM
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upon re-reading the post and visiting the site...yes indeed it is in a niche of it's own. capi, you are NUTS!!!
05-19-04, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Maelstrom
I didn't say it wasn't. But he was asking about on a road bike.
and yeah...the frame was wrecked. The guy is lucky he didn't die.
and yeah...the frame was wrecked. The guy is lucky he didn't die.
I don't see why the frame would come apart, the wheels, tires, hubs, head tube maybe, but not the frame.
05-19-04, 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by capsicum
I don't see why the frame would come apart, the wheels, tires, hubs, head tube maybe, but not the frame.
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05-19-04, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by khuon
As I recall from the video footage, the carbon fibre frame snapped near the "downtube" portion.
05-19-04, 07:05 AM
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Wow, I haven't seen gravity bikes in years. There were a couple around here in the late eighties, but the hils here aren't long enough. You don't have any f-1 bikes do you?
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05-19-04, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by slvoid
You mean this guy?
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=45201
Wrecked at 107mph going down a volcano.
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=45201
Wrecked at 107mph going down a volcano.
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Originally Posted by capsicum
He did it a year or two earlier but only hit 130 no wrecks then. That hill is used for speed skiing record atempts, I think the skiiers have hit 140 or there about.
I don't see why the frame would come apart, the wheels, tires, hubs, head tube maybe, but not the frame.
I don't see why the frame would come apart, the wheels, tires, hubs, head tube maybe, but not the frame.
He did it earlier on a Giant-DH pro bike. Stock frame with light parts. That was always his bike of choice until he tried this prototype.
05-21-04, 03:01 AM
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Originally Posted by jfmckenna
I saw that video on some dorky show called something like 'The most Insane things ever' or something like that. Anyway that was just crazy NUTS holy shmoly. They said the carbon frame broke. And the it was the second run that day can you imagine that. I mean I like speed but thats just suicide. Makes for a good video though...
What kind of dumbass would use a light carbon bike for gravity racing anyway? Weld up a straight gage steel frame and fill it with molten lead and cast all accesories/parts from iron, then strap a scuba weight belt with 100lbs of lead to your waist and then cover yourself in an aerodynamic suit. Thats how you win gravity races.
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Originally Posted by capsicum
The one I'm talking about is in france and not a volcano but a speed skiing glacier, on a Peugeot bicycle. I'm confused who is the fool on the volcano in nicaraugra?
Originally Posted by capsicum
What kind of dumbass would use a light carbon bike for gravity racing anyway? Weld up a straight gage steel frame and fill it with molten lead and cast all accesories/parts from iron, then strap a scuba weight belt with 100lbs of lead to your waist and then cover yourself in an aerodynamic suit. Thats how you win gravity races.
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That Peugeot is nuts. Of course, so are the people doing these things, so I guess it's only fitting. 
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05-23-04, 12:23 PM
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that fall off the cliff didn't look too bad really. he did the right thing by tucking in...i was expecting like, a straight down fall...that was more of a low-speed roll. glad he came out of it okay.
