what's the fastest speed you reached ?

Arthurdaly

Avg Max
Speed 24.8km/h 84.2km/h
Elapsed Time 5:26:41

84.2kmph on a descent in Spain, short enough descent and if I had more road think I would have 100.

Deagol

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Lurkybrack Hill? Have hit the low 70s coming down there as well.Think the weather slowed me that day.

No idea, was doing Mizen to Malin cycle and coming into Letterkenny on the N13 main road I started going very fast and passed out everyone else on the cycle

Lusk_Doyle

132kph in Austria.

Edit: 136.8kph in Austria or so Strava tells me anyway!

magicbastarder

i haven't hit that speed in the car in many years.

Cee-Jay-Cee

79.8kmph down Lurgybrack heading into Letterkenny about 2 years ago. Totally scared the crap out of me and haven't allowed the bike over 60kmph down it ever since.

G1032

67.3 km/hr somewhere in Mayo on a "Windy, wet, horrible morning"

So that sounds like it was a really smart thing to do

https://www.strava.com/activities/527970131

1jcdub

I hit 81kph coming down Bellowstown hill. It's no the best road to do it but it adds to the burst of adrenaline ðŸ˜

magicbastarder

fastest i can find on strava is 69.5, howth summit down to sutton.

Yourmama

89.3kph last year in France. 99kph couple of years ago in Czech Republic but that one was on non GPS computer so I don't know how accurate that was. Mid 70s quite often on Sunday spins. Averaged 65kmh over a 1 km stretch of flat road, behind bus.

dogsears

86 kph coming down Col d'Izoard 2 years ago. There's a couple of decent long straight bits between the hairpins, 90+ definitely achievable if no traffic.

81.4 kph, Wicklow Gap. Cracking day out. Buddy with me got 81.9 kph.

Doc07

78km on the 'mini Sliabh Mann' before real Sliabh Mann on WW200.
Usually much closer to 60 as I'm a nervy descender.

ednwireland

today 66 kmh on a short descent on our club championship, ever about 55mph on holme moss (also pre gps days) bottle goes these days in the high 70's

fat bloke

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

73.1 kph According to Veloviewer (You can filter by speed)

Down a hill called the Dowery. Nearly sure that was the day I couldn't stop for the junction at the end and could have been killed.

I did learn my lesson though.

[edit-yeah, it was that day I couldn't stop]
A 1080p video of my idiocy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOMa2FYh6u4

Impressive resolution on that camera. What is it?

A mate of mine blew through that junction once unable to stop. Grace of God there wasn't anything coming across him!

smacl

72kph coming off Wicklow gap towards Valleymount. Regularly in the mid 60s bur very rarely touch 70. Scarey moment once with a car pulling out on the old long hill has removed that as one of my faster descents.

jober

Mine was 72 on wicklow gap.might of been going a bit faster but was afraid to look down again at the cat-eye speedo I had at the time.

magicbastarder

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

I did learn my lesson though.

[edit-yeah, it was that day I couldn't stop]
A 1080p video of my idiocy

you were impressively silent during emergency braking.

alanjgalbraith

90.7kph on Zwift dropping off the mountain on Watopia .. Super scary!! :eek:

Max Rockatansky

94kph descending Col du Glandon. In Ireland 90kph descending Sliabh Bui.

donegaldude

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

79.8kmph down Lurgybrack heading into Letterkenny about 2 years ago. Totally scared the crap out of me and haven't allowed the bike over 60kmph down it ever since.

I hit near 60mph on it a few years back. Great tailwind coming so I went for it at mc daids. Got the draft off a lorry and passed him on the descent. Thought I was going to run out of road at the bottom but got away it!

Hit 80ish kph on the descent of o connor pass on a closed road a couple years ago.

Happy to hit 60kph these days!

Unknown Soldier

fat bloke wrote: »

Impressive resolution on that camera. What is it?

A mate of mine blew through that junction once unable to stop. Grace of God there wasn't anything coming across him!

Garmin Virb (The original one, non-elite)

I was blessed too. I shot onto the "main" road and I was lucky there wasn't a car/lorry/tour bus using the road.

Suffice is to say I learnt a lesson that day. I wouldn't mind but I'm generally a pussy descending. As much as my face is what it is, I still like all the skin attached to it.

magicbastarder wrote: »

you were impressively silent during emergency braking.

I pray a lot in my head Plus the mic on the garmin Virb isn't very good, thankfully.

Wishbone Ash

Deagol wrote: »

75.6km/h heading down into Letterkenny. Would've gone faster if I wasn't using a compact

Deagol wrote: »

No idea, was doing Mizen to Malin cycle and coming into Letterkenny on the N13 main road I started going very fast and passed out everyone else on the cycle

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

79.8kmph down Lurgybrack heading into Letterkenny about 2 years ago. Totally scared the crap out of me and haven't allowed the bike over 60kmph down it ever since.

Lurgybrack to the Dry Arch roundabout is also my fastest that I know of - 79.9km/h. Lovely piece of road - straight, smooth, wide, excellent visibility and very few houses/entrances etc. Cursing my compact that day - legs spinning like a food mixer! https://www.strava.com/activities/599736229

cajonlardo wrote: »

... I have actually seen my own highest speed descending the Long Hill as an average speed in a flat T.T by Cancellera. Puts things in perspective for me anyway.

Love it and hate it in equal measure. If only they could move that farmyard entrance on the left half way down. I'm usually quietly praying no one emerges as I approach it.

dahat

Fastest I can find is 73.5km off the descent from Mt Mellary which if anyone knows it is horrible, have 4th overall on it but don't think I'll ever get quicker as it's very dangerous,

deeksofdoom

73kph going down the sweep into dungarvan.

codrulz

Hit 92kph coming down cromwellstown hill in Kilteel (Kildare) That was last year when I was 16 and 65kg

Sinbad_NI

50 mph / 80 kmh at the Giro Gran Fondo NI this year... closed roads are just the best thing.

magicbastarder

sod the who has gone fastest, i'd like to know who has crashed at the highest speed. if they can still type.

dahat

magicbastarder wrote: »

sod the who has gone fastest, i'd like to know who has crashed at the highest speed. if they can still type.

Descending Mahon Falls, overshot bend before cattle grid n head on into a wall, mighty slow but body & bike survived.... Unsure of speed but it was a big hit

Mehaffey1

87kmh going out of Rathfriland towards Banbridge.

As for fasted crash only 43kmh into a German Shepherd who didn't flinch an inch while I carthweeled over the handlebars cracking my good Specialized Pro helmet but luckily came away unhurt. Dog owner didn't have a lead on the dog while he was walking it but did have a lead on his pet GOAT. Poor fella was obviously a bit touched in the head as he hid in a field after I crashed in plain sight of us through the bare hedge

Wishbone Ash

Fastest crash was when I T-boned a right turning car across my path - Strava shows I went from 43km/h to 0 in an instant!