Author Topic: Top speeds (Read 9789 times)

Butterfly · « **Reply #25 on:** 31 March, 2012, 09:45:42 am »

I managed 33 MPH on Banstead Road yesterday, which wasn't bad considering the traffic and that I was solo on the tandem

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clarion · « **Reply #26 on:** 31 March, 2012, 06:54:49 pm »

We managed to nudge 50kph today in a group.

Butterfly · « **Reply #27 on:** 31 March, 2012, 06:56:36 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 31 March, 2012, 06:54:49 pm

We managed to nudge 50kph today in a group.

With me piloting and clarion stoking

simonp · « **Reply #28 on:** 31 March, 2012, 07:35:11 pm »

Quote from: Butterfly on 31 March, 2012, 06:56:36 pm

Quote from: clarion on 31 March, 2012, 06:54:49 pm
We managed to nudge 50kph today in a group.
With me piloting and clarion stoking

Did he squeal?

Butterfly · « **Reply #29 on:** 31 March, 2012, 07:43:42 pm »

No he was very quiet!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #30 on:** 01 April, 2012, 12:17:08 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 30 March, 2012, 09:28:09 am

Quote from: Charlotte on 30 March, 2012, 09:03:22 am
80km/h down Shooters Hill in London. Julian's learned to shut her eyes and trust me
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw ages ago.

Scene: Boy racer casually driving car, one hand on the wheel, elbow on window sill. Speed is high. Passenger, older man, a gibbering wreck, teeth banging together in fear.

"See, every time I get above ninety, there's this damn chattering noise."

Anyway, V_max on the Pino is somewhere north of 80kmh^-1. V_terminal just before we crossed the camber on a left hand bend and slid down the road sideways due to insufficiuent friction was 75kmh^-12. I was the passenger that time.

At 31676352000000000000000km/h friction should be your last worry!

Zipperhead · « **Reply #31 on:** 04 April, 2012, 08:28:10 pm »

72kph in Richmond Park, before the current speed limit was in force, and it wasn't down a steep bit. Faster than we took it in the mountains.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #32 on:** 04 April, 2012, 08:32:10 pm »

Can we have speeds in English please? Using km/h is like selling petrol in litres to make it sound more acceptable, or measuring the length of your knob in centimetres

bobb · « **Reply #33 on:** 04 April, 2012, 08:34:23 pm »

Come on, this is YACF - using mph is racist, innit...

simonp · « **Reply #34 on:** 04 April, 2012, 08:44:26 pm »

17.89m/s.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #35 on:** 04 April, 2012, 08:49:29 pm »

133619 furlongs/fortnight. HTH.

iddu · « **Reply #36 on:** 04 April, 2012, 10:28:56 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 04 April, 2012, 08:49:29 pm

133619 furlongs/fortnight. HTH.

Bleedin' modern muck - what's wrong with cubits per unut? Good enuf for Granpappy

clarion · « **Reply #37 on:** 05 April, 2012, 10:01:36 am »

We'll drag Roger forward into the 18th Century yet, I tell you!

Riggers · « **Reply #38 on:** 05 April, 2012, 10:19:35 am »

Quote from: Charlotte on 30 March, 2012, 09:03:22 am

80km/h down Shooters Hill in London. Julian's learned to shut her eyes and trust me

I shouldn't be thinking what I'm thinking.

simonp · « **Reply #39 on:** 09 April, 2012, 12:11:00 am »

74.1km/h descending into Wantage on the Easter Arrow on Friday. AndyH was going faster!

Still not the fastest I’ve ever recorded on a bike, which was 74.8km/h.

thing1 · « **Reply #40 on:** 11 April, 2012, 12:14:59 pm »

Quote from: simonp on 09 April, 2012, 12:11:00 am

74.1km/h descending into Wantage on the Easter Arrow on Friday. AndyH was going faster!

Still not the fastest I’ve ever recorded on a bike, which was 74.8km/h.

That's the place where we've done our most highest speeds -- nothing earth shattering though.
Nudged over 80km/h twice on the touring tandem. Only about 75km/h on the "fast" audaxing tandem.... it gets a bit too skittish at those speeds for my comfort, but the Thorn remains solid as a rock.

Chris S · « **Reply #41 on:** 11 April, 2012, 12:25:28 pm »

You people are all waaayyy too light. You need to increase your Pukka Pie and Doughnut intake for a while, if you really want to court Mr Gravity and his Accelerating ways

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Ian H · « **Reply #42 on:** 11 April, 2012, 01:13:39 pm »

Quote from: Chris S on 11 April, 2012, 12:25:28 pm

You people are all waaayyy too light. You need to increase your Pukka Pie and Doughnut intake for a while, if you really want to court Mr Gravity and his Accelerating ways .

Well converting my 56mph to metric gives a little over 90kph. But the strange thing is that that's a max on both tandem and solo.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #43 on:** 11 April, 2012, 01:38:17 pm »

Quote from: Chris S on 11 April, 2012, 12:25:28 pm

You people are all waaayyy too light. You need to increase your Pukka Pie and Doughnut intake for a while, if you really want to court Mr Gravity and his Accelerating ways .

Beer and Pies - The Food of Champions.

A few years ago we were going round the New Forest on the tandem on some audax or other. We were leapfrogging a bunch from a triathlon club - they'd catch us up, then we'd over take them. Until we got to a Steep Down Hill. Tuck down (as much as one can tuck down on a Pino), unleash the brakes and foom! disappear into a gravity well. My ears popped with excitement. Or change in pressure.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #44 on:** 12 April, 2012, 10:18:34 am »

Quote from: Riggers on 05 April, 2012, 10:19:35 am

Quote from: Charlotte on 30 March, 2012, 09:03:22 am
80km/h down Shooters Hill in London. Julian's learned to shut her eyes and trust me

I shouldn't be thinking what I'm thinking.

Of course you should. Everyone else was. You were the only one to think it out loud.

Andydauddwr · « **Reply #45 on:** 18 April, 2012, 09:57:25 am »

Quote from: Jasmine on 30 March, 2012, 03:31:22 pm

Quote from: LEE on 30 March, 2012, 03:04:08 pm
Note to SimonP. Coming down off Cross-Foxes on BCM600, shortly after the start of day 2, is where I believe most people could achieve their fastest speeds. My nerve has gone on that stretch of road (after a particularly scary descent) but, if you can hold your nerve, it's a clear and straight run for the final km.

92 km/h toward Dinas Mawddwy when we got held up by a car. I wouldn't do it on the BCM though - your judgement isn't going to be at its best.

What was particularly batsh*t about that one was it was our first long shake-down when the stead was new. Would have hit 3 figures but for the car...

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jogler · « **Reply #46 on:** 18 April, 2012, 06:25:34 pm »

Given that my wife & daughter read this forum I'd best not publish the max. kph my grand daughter & I have achieved on our tandem.
The tandem may end up on ebay.
It was on the FNRttC Manchester to Blackpool ride & Emily was very happy to be doing it

Andrew Br · « **Reply #47 on:** 18 April, 2012, 06:29:20 pm »

Quote from: jogler on 18 April, 2012, 06:25:34 pm

It was on the FNRttC Manchester to Blackpool ride & Emily was very happy to be doing it

It was at night as well ?

jogler · « **Reply #48 on:** 18 April, 2012, 06:44:15 pm »

'twas o.k.,I'd been to Specsavers

PeterS · « **Reply #49 on:** 28 April, 2012, 02:17:10 pm »

We've managed 97.5kph descending Slack Hill in Derbyshire. This is just over 60mph - we were hoping to reach 100kph but ran out of road. You tend to run out of road quickly at that speed.