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"What's the Fastest You've Ever Clocked?"
Jul 9th, 2012, 4:25pm
 
Even in various conditions:  
 
1). Straight, level course
 
2). Downhill (even give the gradient, if known);
 
3). Whatever!
 
I'll start off.  The fastest I have ever gone on the 700 is 57- or 67mph on a short 11% hill with an intersection at the bottom. Smiley  
It was some time ago, and the data was lost with the Garmin. . .  cry
 
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Reply #1 - Jul 9th, 2012, 4:37pm
 
Just over 41 down hill (just a few degrees on Hwy 5 headed south, before the bridges) on the old Infinity (since sold) early in the morning with not much more than position lights, and of course that's when I had the Golden Eagle Bike Engine installed!  I was peddling as fast as I could and the motor was just about topped out.
 
Being dark with almost no lights made it seem so much slower...only thing I needed was to have my hair on fire!  Woo Hoo!!  That same day on the way home broke 7 spokes on the drive side of the rear wheel.  Never rode the bike (before I sold it) or the engine (which is still for sale) again...now I have the SXP and I can't seem to get it over 33!!
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Reply #2 - Jul 9th, 2012, 5:22pm
 
I've hit 55 mph before on my old road bike.  I was somewhere in the SW corner of Wisconsin, (danged if I can remember where).  I just remember climbing up a ridge line or three and then dropping down into a valley.
 
I'm still looking for a big enough hill around here to break 55 on...
 
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Reply #3 - Jul 9th, 2012, 6:30pm
 
On my trike about 38 MPH, just about the same place you saw me months ago tightening my rear spokes.....
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Reply #4 - Jul 9th, 2012, 8:14pm
 
41.9 on the first ever CCRBENT ride on Jay's xstream.  I'm guessing it was the downhill in front of McKinney HS?  I'll have to take my Corsa up there to see if I can beat that speed.
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Reply #5 - Jul 9th, 2012, 8:40pm
 
48 on Muenster last year, videoing with one hand...  not sure I"m interested in hitting 50...   Smiley
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Reply #6 - Jul 9th, 2012, 9:19pm
 
Downhill:  Just over 60 on the Race Across Oregon a few years ago.  My Partner, Chris, hit just shy of 70.  Didn't want to go that fast but I was afraid if I kept trying to scrub speed I'd melt the brakes!
 
TT:  A fairly hilly TT - the Texas State Time Trials, saw me come in at exactly 55 minutes for the 25 miles.
 
Flat:  40.1
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Reply #7 - Jul 9th, 2012, 10:15pm
 
Big hills in Cedar Hill State Park.  I've done 33mph on my trike.  My hair standing on end kept raising my helmet.
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Reply #8 - Jul 9th, 2012, 10:39pm
 
Guess I'm a serious wimp....only 47 on several bikes bikes i've ridden.  If ya like climbing hills the roads around ardmore are great for a speed fest down hill.  I hate thinking about the  speed rating these skinny tires have cause i really like my skin.    
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Reply #9 - Jul 10th, 2012, 10:48am
 
43 mph last year at the Springtown Spin going down a very long hill.  Scared the s--- out of me. Smiley
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Reply #10 - Jul 10th, 2012, 3:29pm
 
I routinely hit 35-36mph on the Lake Forest hill (aka Nemesis Nill) by Boyd HS in McKinney.
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Reply #11 - Jul 10th, 2012, 5:07pm
 
36 (on a hill) but I started thinking about what a blowout might do and slowed down.
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Reply #12 - Jul 11th, 2012, 2:07pm
 
65mph down a 23% grade on a DF racing bike 30 years ago before I could sense my own mortality as well as I do now.  
 
25.7mph (58min) in the Alabama State 40K TT in the early 80's on the same road bike,  Pre aero anything.  Also the race in which  I had to dodge @20 rattlesnakes.  Board Flat (see Sprott, AL).
 
I once did a 1:14.2 (30.1mph) at the thingy Lane Velodrome in the standing start 1KM in 1983 which isn't easy on that track.
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Reply #13 - Jul 11th, 2012, 9:04pm
 
Quote from Patti on Jul 10th, 2012, 5:07pm:
36 (on a hill) but I started thinking about what a blowout might do and slowed down.

Patti,
At high speed, (circa 25 mph), trikes don't flip, or anything, like SUVs.  You just feel much less response from your imputs.  You say, "Hmmm, what's up with the trike?" You look down, and..."Oh."  Anticlimactic.  Been there with fronts, and the rear.
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Reply #14 - Jul 11th, 2012, 9:47pm
 
Quote from Kwijybow on Jul 11th, 2012, 2:07pm:
65mph down a 23% grade on a DF racing bike 30 years ago before I could sense my own mortality as well as I do now.

25.7mph (58min) in the Alabama State 40K TT in the early 80's on the same road bike,  Pre aero anything.  Also the race in which  I had to dodge @20 rattlesnakes.  Board Flat (see Sprott, AL).

I once did a 1:14.2 (30.1mph) at the thingy Lane Velodrome in the standing start 1KM in 1983 which isn't easy on that track.

 
Downhill on a 23% GRADE?  You're my kinda guy.  Wish I could see that video.  
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