SesameCrunch

51.8 mph coming down a winding hilly road near my house. I was riding a new 2005 Fuji Professional carbon bike with Easton Circuit wheels. Felt solid as a rock.

gapowermike

~38. It's flat as a pancake in South Georgia. I'm a little nervous about doing the Brasstown Bald & Assault on Mt. Mitchell ride considering I've never broken 40.

I hope you guys are performing regular inspections of your bikes before attempting these speeds.

Michael

fifao

Down-hill= 49mph
flat-Sprint= 34mph

I know the sprint is pathetic, but it was with my old wheels............

evictionsurplus

You are all nuts. I top 35mph from time to time. But at that point I have visions of questionable pavement, unseen obsticles, broken cheek bones and tibias and skin grafts. That is when I modulate brakes and pray to a god I don't believe in.
I took my bike into the Colorado Rockies this summer for a fly fishing trip. Uphills, good. Downhills were too much. Sadly, I am afraid of a pain-filled, skin-lessened death. Props to all of you mountain riders.

DannoXYZ 

62mph, drafting a big trucking coming down San Marcos Pass...

distortedmotion

Appropriatly named!

pharmboyrx

36mph with the wind on my back going down a bridge. (We don't have hills in FL......you jerks)

joetronic

I hit my new personal best on the flats yesterday, 31.5 mph. My best before on the same flat stretch was 29.6 last week. Might have been the tail wind though.

Cypress

44.8mph flatland sprinting for a yellow sign yesterday.

Paniolo

52 mph spinning out and tucking down 2222 in Austin. I would hit 45 everyday on my Austin commute heading N downhill before the bridge on Cap of Tx hwy (360)

2Rodies

I've hit 58 on 2222 drafing behind my team mate who is built like a Mac truck....zero wind! Ever since I lost all this weight (move here at 175 now 152) I don't go down hills nearly as fast as I used too!

WheresWaldo

Didn't we have this thread less than a month ago? Here you go:

72 Miles per Hour

mirona

69.3 mph on a trainer.

hairyleg

On a trainer doesn't count. Prove that there's serious danger and I'll care.

Yes, we had this topic less than a month ago, I started it, and got some flak for it, because of the apparant redundancy of this subject. Big deal. Have fun everybody!!!

%! MPH. Figure that out. Just to make it interesting.

mirona

Haha my post was partly joking because of the fact that it was on a trainer. And why would you care either way? Seems you're just making standards up to boost your own self.

And by the way, there was 'serious danger' involved in my 48 mph descent down the backside of Mount Greylock which is all fast, tight switchbacks and bad pavement. That's not my top speed on the road, though, as I've hit 56 mph before. Does that satisfy you, your majesty?

Sawtooth

52 about 3 weeks ago on Cartwrite road. But the real adventure was going 46 down a local ski road (Pommerelle) and discovering that I had failed to tighten the quick release on my brake caliper, right as I rounded a turn to find 3 COWS in the road. I blew between them and thanked the Lord for his tender mercies. I wonder what hitting a cow on a road bike would be like. Probably best to aim for that huge belly.

shabbasuraj

127 km/h downhill...three days ago...

mirona

Wow, where was that?

WheresWaldo

79 mph, I would love to know where that was, I now have a new goal to shoot for.

bitingduck

I've hit pavement at 35 mph (probably more than once...) and it's not that bad as long as you don't hit a stationary object or get run over by another bike. You don't even have to lose that much skin-- modern bike clothes don't rip as fast as the old wool ones and you often get more of a rug burn.

Fastest I can remember seeing is 52 mph, in Rochester, Minnesota of all places. I think I hit about 50 on a mountain bike on a descent on the haul road in Alaska.

I do mid-40's all the time on mountains in southern California without working at it.

Hhowdy

Howdy,
Flat land with neutral wind would be 36mph for about 1 minute
Down hill with a tail wind would be 53mph for 3-4 minutes

Both were a real rush.

M.R.

Wurm

LMAO! Well, hitting that cow's guts might have been a tad easier for the bike, but I think you would still have been plenty launched!

My fastest for last year was 49 mph down from the Thatcher Park climb. I would have easily broken 50+ but possibly for wearing a windbreaker, and definitely because some ******** Minivan Mom passed me and cut
me off on one of the tighter curves farther down. I mean, right on the hairiest part of the curve and...BAM!...there she was. What a stupid bytch. I really had to lay on the pads hard & quick or I'd have been a goner.

WATCH OUT!!

andrew young

32 mph on my fixed gear, while racing someone down the Greenway here in Mpls. No wind.....

recursive

49 downhill.

cydewaze

Funny thing about that pic is that I just kind of found it on my website while doing housekeeping one day. I sort-of remember taking the pic, but I can't for the life of me remember where or when I hit that speed.

Old age I guess.