Your Top Speed

[dgaddis1]

How fast has everyone been a bicycle? Be specific!

I've hit 22 somewhere on Deep Step, that's my fastest on a trail.

But I've hit 43 on road near the Buford Dam riding a rigid mountain bike.

[driftwood]

Well, because I don't have a trip computer I just have to use relative terms.

I've gone so fast on Deep Step that I almost pissed myself.

I was riding Range Rd on Fort Gordon yesterday and I went so fast downhill that if I had hit a deer I would've ended up a long skid mark on the road.

And on the topic of speed (or lack thereof), I ran horn creek trail yesterday, and then biked it. My riding time was only 10 min faster than my running time.

[seenvic]

48MPH coming down a fire road in Vail. Co. It was on the World Cup DH Course in about 1994. I was on a hardtail and I was scared.

My friend's computer said 54 MPH coming down the same hill.

[dgaddis1]

driftwood said:

Well, because I don't have a trip computer I just have to use relative terms.

I've gone so fast on Deep Step that I almost pissed myself.

I was riding Range Rd on Fort Gordon yesterday and I went so fast downhill that if I had hit a deer I would've ended up a long skid mark on the road.

And on the topic of speed (or lack thereof), I ran horn creek trail yesterday, and then biked it. My riding time was only 10 min faster than my running time.

Speaking of deer....I rode at Fort Yargo State Park (near Winder GA) last weekend and I heard something off to my left and before I could even turn to look a BIG doe ran out in front of me. It was so close I don't know how we didn't hit each other. Probably the scariest non-dirt-jumping moment I've ever had on a bike.

[ted]

Since your question was on a bike and not a specific type, ie road or mtn, I'll reply thusly...
MTB; no idea due to never having a computer on any of my mtb. But, nowhere near 54 mph.
Road; 62 mph when I was living in Oregon. There just aren't that many places on the east coast to be able to get up to that kind of speed.
The sweetest part was I was able to pass a car in the turn and beat it to the bottom.
I did, however, hit 48 mph going down Georgia Ave in North Augusta with the help of a draft off of a dump truck when one could make the light @ Georgia Ave and Martintown Rd.

[dparrott]

I think I did about 30 mph on the return trail at Tsali. On the road, there's a good hill near Harlem - I've done 46 on that and last summer I hit 49 once in NY and once in central PA on an extended road trip.

[JIMMYC]

Summer 1977, on hwy 121 between hwy 28 and the Clarks Hill dam, 135 mph on a friends
KZ900........oh, you said BI-CYLCLE. I'll have to get back to you.