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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Managed 34 mph on my way to work this morning, thanks to a slow gradient and a tale wind, ok, doesnt sound fast but when all your using for power is your own two legs its like lightening  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I feel that for the need of proof that your legs did the speed, that we need(us ladies) a picture of your toned thighs on your profile. xx"
I'll try and sort one out for you now |
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By *ruitWoman
over a year ago
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Ladies and gents I have just had proof of the said gentlemans thighs,
my responce was holy mother of god, have never seen such fabulous thighs. Shame you cant put proof pictures on forums lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Managed 34 mph on my way to work this morning, thanks to a slow gradient and a tale wind, ok, doesnt sound fast but when all your using for power is your own two legs its like lightening "
wow thats good going hun x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Ladies and gents I have just had proof of the said gentlemans thighs,
my responce was holy mother of god, have never seen such fabulous thighs. Shame you cant put proof pictures on forums lol"
I'll try and sort a butt pic out soon. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"mally's head is getting far to big now....
look at me now please 
no leave me alone, i cant take this amount of popularity  "
No we wont, we will continue to perve! And we will enjoy.... |
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"Managed 34 mph on my way to work this morning, thanks to a slow gradient and a tale wind, ok, doesnt sound fast but when all your using for power is your own two legs its like lightening "
When you say a slow gradient, do you mean uphill.
34mph isn't fast when going downhill.
Mind you there are some serious hills around these parts. |
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I've done about that speed on my bike coming home from work too. Got an ambition to set off a Gatso camera for exceeding 30mph on that stretch of road. I've been "done" in the car  but never on the push bike. I wonder if the radar can detect push bikes?
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"I've done about that speed on my bike coming home from work too. Got an ambition to set off a Gatso camera for exceeding 30mph on that stretch of road. I've been "done" in the car but never on the push bike. I wonder if the radar can detect push bikes?
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I certainly don't affect them when on the bike - suspect we don't have a big enough cross section or something.
34mph on the flat is good going, i only averaged 9mph going up Hartside on Saturday but by then i'd already ridden 80 miles |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I certainly don't affect them when on the bike - suspect we don't have a big enough cross section or something.
34mph on the flat is good going, i only averaged 9mph going up Hartside on Saturday but by then i'd already ridden 80 miles "
I do 28 miles a day, 5 days a week |
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I certainly don't affect them when on the bike - suspect we don't have a big enough cross section or something.
34mph on the flat is good going, i only averaged 9mph going up Hartside on Saturday but by then i'd already ridden 80 miles
I do 28 miles a day, 5 days a week"
Reckon i do about 80-100 miles a week on a good week.
25-30 miles on a Tuesday evening on the MTB, anywhere from 25-40 miles on the road bike on a Thursday & somewhere between 25 - 40 miles on the mtb at weekends.
Last week was 132.5 miles on the road bike as we road the C2C.
Unfortunately work is getting in the way of my riding, too much bloomin' overtime! |
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Got that top speed beat by 8 mph..... but NEVER AGAIN!!!
Have to say I have been up to 130mph in a car, and over that on a motorbike, but 42 mph on a pushbike is fekkin scary!!!!
It was on a steep hill, so it was lots of pedalling at the top, and then ... well all I really remember was hanging on for dear life and praying.... and I'm an aetheist!! Genuinely almost scared the wotsit out of me, had to have a sit down to steady the nerves. |
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i raced a fair few times on the isle of man on a cycle and a few times round the infamous motorbike tt circuit,it's a tough climb climb out of ramsey but the reward is a fantastic descent down towards douglas,one year i touched 52 mph on my bikes computer and it was shit scary!.
the roads were not closed for this one lap time trial so we did not have full use of the road and on the approach to creg ny baa there is a nasty right hand sweeping bend where you had to be very carefull not to touch the wet white line down the centre of the road otherwise you would surely have ended up in the field opposite!,very very scary indeed on 23 millimetre semi-slik cycle tyres!. |
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"i raced a fair few times on the isle of man on a cycle and a few times round the infamous motorbike tt circuit,it's a tough climb climb out of ramsey but the reward is a fantastic descent down towards douglas,one year i touched 52 mph on my bikes computer and it was shit scary!.
the roads were not closed for this one lap time trial so we did not have full use of the road and on the approach to creg ny baa there is a nasty right hand sweeping bend where you had to be very carefull not to touch the wet white line down the centre of the road otherwise you would surely have ended up in the field opposite!,very very scary indeed on 23 millimetre semi-slik cycle tyres!."
Is that the acute-angled 30 degree bend with the big white building right at the apex on the descent down the Mountain? That's a scary one to get wrong!
Strangely enough although i like climbing & can usually beat my mates whether on the road bike or mtb i'm terrible at descending on the roads. Hit around 35mph & get worried, hit 40mph & i'm hauling on the brakes!
Doesn't worry me on the mtb though for some reason? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I lived in the Midlands, there was a descent on the edge of Brum into Hagley that had a speed camera (one of those warning ones rather than a gatso) at the bottom. I tried for years to set that off but always failled. That was a 50 limit and I never quite got passed the high 40's. The fastest I ever did was around 57 in the cotswolds before I bottled it. If I'd known the road better 60 plus would have been easy as I was left behind by a few of the people I was with that day!
30mph is only worth boasting about on the flat and for a prolonged period of time. Not that I am capable of it, though I haver done a 10 mile race on the track that averaged just under 30. |
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Is that the acute-angled 30 degree bend with the big white building right at the apex on the descent down the Mountain? That's a scary one to get wrong!
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yes thats the one with the hotel on left hand side!,your done descending there at it just lumpy a bit through cerg ny baa to grandstand,was a pic in photographers of me in douglas on the drops just streamlined and feathering the brakes a wee bit just millimetres from white line,very scary!.
in IOM road races i jumped away from groups i had climbed with and scuttered away on descent,must have been that majorcan descending down la colobra did me good!.. |
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By *o DaddyMan
over a year ago
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"When I lived in the Midlands, there was a descent on the edge of Brum into Hagley that had a speed camera (one of those warning ones rather than a gatso) at the bottom. I tried for years to set that off but always failled. That was a 50 limit and I never quite got passed the high 40's. The fastest I ever did was around 57 in the cotswolds before I bottled it. If I'd known the road better 60 plus would have been easy as I was left behind by a few of the people I was with that day!
30mph is only worth boasting about on the flat and for a prolonged period of time. Not that I am capable of it, though I haver done a 10 mile race on the track that averaged just under 30."
they put trafic lights right at bottom of that hill just by the pub!,sunday clubruns now go from the pub car park.
you would remember the descent from romsley hill down to halesowen then that the b'ham division used for road races and in 80s national rr champs used,that can be very hairy just approaching the island at the bottom whren at speed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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they put trafic lights right at bottom of that hill just by the pub!,sunday clubruns now go from the pub car park.
you would remember the descent from romsley hill down to halesowen then that the b'ham division used for road races and in 80s national rr champs used,that can be very hairy just approaching the island at the bottom whren at speed. "
I used to love that descent. I remember one night Steve Knight (the cross rider) undertaking me, I as doing well over 30 - he scared the shit out of me - incredible bike handling! Which ever way you rode Romsley gave a cracking descent, I miss those roads! |
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just thinking about it,the year i clocked over 50 mph on the descent from snaefell on the isle of man was the year the flying scotsman graeme obree rode and set the second fastest ever time of 1-28-15.
i finished the event in 1-58-55 and wanted to see the scotsman come in but he had gone faster than expected and came in just a few minutes behind me,how he hauled that ginormous big fixed gear (112?)up from ramsey i do not know!,but it must have been fantastic bike handling twiddling it down the other side!. |
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