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Retro4300
Joined: 14 Mar 2009
Posts: 73
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 Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:44 pm |
Just wondering what your max speed on a mtb is ?
Done 39mph using a 11x42 Ratio near Delamere Forest train station.
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stelaking
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 74
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:06 pm |
Done 68mph being towed to school by rs2000
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stubs
Joined: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 989
Location: merseyside
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yeehaamcgee
Joined: 07 May 2007
Posts: 6004
Location: Worth Nails
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Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:13 pm |
It's not amazing, but I was quite satisfied with this run round the Marin trail with a buggered up knee. Average speed is woeful cause I couldn't get any power down on the climbs without being in agony.
Didn't have any speedometer with me at Innerleithen, and I haven't done any DH this year due to my knee, so this is probably the fastest this year.
Mae'n enw i wedi ei grafu, hefo hoelan wedi rhydu, ar y lechan las
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steady rider
Joined: 08 Sep 2009
Posts: 231
Location: southport
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Eranu
Joined: 26 May 2007
Posts: 403
Location: Hampshire, United Kingdom
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rhyko7
Joined: 03 Nov 2008
Posts: 447
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Posted Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:45 pm |
i did 47.9 mph down wentwood hill with skinny xc tyres, im sure i could get well over 50 if it was wider or i knew no cars were coming up the other way
offroad the quickets ive been is 35mph at forrest of dean and brechfa, but both on quite smooth straight tracks
Dont look at it-ride it! they are tools not f*cking ornaments
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squiggoth
Joined: 23 Sep 2008
Posts: 34
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Posted Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:26 am |
41.9 mph with nevegal stick e compound. cant wait to try that hill on a road bike.. well apart from the hair pin at the bottom : 
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M1llh0use
Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 344
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El Capitano
Joined: 29 Aug 2004
Posts: 8336
Location: Mrs Miggins Home for the Criminally Insane
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Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 7:49 pm |
56mph drafting a HGV on an MTB. 72mph drafting a motorbike on a roadie.
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rhann
Joined: 10 Jun 2009
Posts: 247
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Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:30 am |
44mph going downhill when I was 12-14 cant remember, hit about 42 on my current bike on the same hill but haven't quite got the confidence/madness back to do it, maybe once I've got a new fork, brakes and have had the bike serviced may hit 50.
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jweston
Joined: 07 Feb 2008
Posts: 25
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:07 pm |
43 mph down Box Hill in Surrey, on my Orange 5. I started at the back of a group of 15 riders and got to the bottom first. I ran out of gearing at about 25mph and got the rest by gravity and a tucked aero position. I even had to manual a few rabbit holes!
When I was a kid I remember getting up to some pretty naughty speeds down Garrowby Hill and Chop Gate bank in North Yorkshire. I never had a speedo then.
~Jessica
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Surf-Matt
Joined: 22 Apr 2008
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Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:17 pm |
About 38mph on the road bike. Even that feels too fast. I may avoid entering the Tour de France next year.
Also seen what happens when you fall off over 40ish. It usually involves death.
1994 British Eagle Strike - ratty bike
1997 Specialized Stumpjumper - still fun
2007 Stumpjumper Comp with upgrades - main bike
2008 Rockhopper Disk - for the wife
2010 Allez Elite - for goin faaaast
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