Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: Wendy on 16 June, 2009, 12:48:04 pm
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I had such a great commute on Sunday morning!! First off I caught up to a lone road rider on the downhill from Keston/Downe on the A233, and passed him at 43mph, at least 10mph faster than he was going. He was down on the drops too, well tucked in, LOL! I called out on your right a little way back, and heard him shout out what sounded like "Oh fcuk!!" as I passed. Of course that's just the nature of a bent, rather than anything on my part, but still v. enjoyable.
Then I passed almost 200 cars queueing for Norman Park. Made my day that did!
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43 mph?
omg*!!
(*gosh, not god/God/dog)
My best one ever was riding from Telford to Shrewsbury after work for the Shropshire Cycle Forum. I saw another road cyclist on a die-straight piece of the old A5. I seldom got the excuse to stretch my legs like this after work. I wound it up and huffed and puffed to catch the geezer up, it took several miles. When I passed him he held my wheel, neither of us could talk. We raced each other until we reached Emstrey roundabout and caught our breath to speak to each other. Had a really polite chat and a good laugh.
If I recall properly, we reached speeds of 38 mph. I'm not sure I'd have it in me right now...
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Best I've done recently was burning out to Dungeness across the pan flat Rye marshes with a tailwind doing over 50kph. Not one car dared overtake me which was good since there was a ditch and lots of barbed wire to my left...
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It's not that impressive a speed, remember this is a fast recumbent. I did fail to push the record button on the camera, sadly, but at least I got the overtaking nearly 200 vehicles in 4min:
YouTube - 20090614 overtaking lots of cars on a bike. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am4wlW2yj6Q)
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It's not that impressive a speed, remember this is a fast recumbent. I did fail to push the record button on the camera, sadly, but at least I got the overtaking nearly 200 vehicles in 4min:
YouTube - 20090614 overtaking lots of cars on a bike. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am4wlW2yj6Q)
I think you've just cleaned up in "Unusual or interesting cars you have spotted recently" with that bit of footage, BM :D
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I think you've just cleaned up in "Unusual or interesting cars you have spotted recently" with that bit of footage, BM :D
Bond Bug!! (Near the end)
;D 8) ;D
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I think you've just cleaned up in "Unusual or interesting cars you have spotted recently" with that bit of footage, BM :D
Only I wouldn't know what most of them were! It was some sort of stinky old car show in Norman Park in Bromley.
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I was expecting to see a broken down MG at the head of the queue with bonnet up and steam issuing forth...
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(David posting as Alan)
Fastest today was 73.1 km/h which is a shade over 45 mph. Down the 1 in 7 into Much Wenlock before I bottled it, sat up and put the brakes on.
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