What is the Slowest Speed You've Ever Reached on Your Bike

pelevin · 22-06-2014 11:59pm #1

It was once raining so I didn't bother going out so on that occasion I reached a speed of 0 both in kilometres per hour and miles per hour.

vicwatson · 23-06-2014 12:01am

Same here

Daroxtar · 23-06-2014 12:12am

I reversed out of the garage once, -5km/h

corks finest · 23-06-2014 12:22am

pelevin wrote: »

It was once raining so I didn't bother going out so on that occasion I reached a speed of 0 both in kilometres per hour and miles per hour.

i fell off

not yet · 23-06-2014 12:48am

I'm doing 0.00 km per hour on the sofa right now..

pelevin · 23-06-2014 12:50am

There's some very impressive performances there. Minus 5 is hard to beat.

Cookie_Monster · 23-06-2014 1:07am

about 30kph going backwards and upside down. didn't manage it for very long though as my shoulder is slightly less good for maintaining progress than wheels are.
so -30

RobFowl · 23-06-2014 1:23am

2:50 track stand !

Idleater · 23-06-2014 6:59am

Pushing squares up the 13% section of the col du Marie Blanque I saw 4.4 kmph at a cadence of 40. I remember thinking I'd be as well off walking.

serendip · 23-06-2014 7:59am

I could win this one. My touring bike has 22 on the front and 34 on the back. When it gets steep, I can comfortably go as slow as 5kmh.

Tristram · 23-06-2014 8:02am

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

about 30kph going backwards and upside down. didn't manage it for very long though as my shoulder is slightly less good for maintaining progress than wheels are.
so -30

That's for the "What is the Slowest Speed Your Bike Has Ever Reached on You" thread.

g0g · 23-06-2014 8:27am

You know it's time to post in this thread when you hear the Auto Pause beep on a Garmin because of the speed you're trying to go up a hill at!

el tel · 23-06-2014 9:35am

Strange thing happened to me once. I rode at 10mph against a 15 mph headwind. Bizarrely however, I didn't go backwards at 5mph, but actually made forward progress. Take that vectors and laws of physics!

Cookie_Monster · 23-06-2014 9:44am

el tel wrote: »

Strange thing happened to me once. I rode at 10mph against a 15 mph headwind. Bizarrely however, I didn't go backwards at 5mph, but actually made forward progress. Take that vectors and laws of physics!

that's cos you're denser than the wind

or something...

Eamonnator · 23-06-2014 9:49am

You were really putting in the same effort, as if you were cycling at 25mph, in dead calm.. Or something else.
Maybe it was magic. Magic accounts for a lot of stuff.

lennymc · 23-06-2014 10:01am

I went for a spin with Eamonnator once. Does that count?

Seaswimmer · 23-06-2014 10:06am

I actually won the slow bicycle race in a school sports day many years ago
(c 1975). I was cycling a Triumph 20 and a won a set of Raleigh battery lights for my efforts.

Eamonnator · 23-06-2014 10:31am

lennymc wrote: »

I went for a spin with Eamonnator once. Does that count?

Yeah, that was magic.

Iwannahurl · 23-06-2014 10:41am

On occasion, because all available road space is filled with cars, I have to cycle as slow as motorised traffic, ie less than walking speed or even 0 km/h.

Jabel · 23-06-2014 1:13pm

I'd like to patent a term here...
I reached 'fall speed' going up Kilmashogue Hill last week.
i.e went so slow I fell over

eeeee · 23-06-2014 1:45pm

-5kph backwards

23-06-2014 5:20pm

The slowest I've ever gone is when I fell over while clipped in. 0 kph, but time seems to slow down as you go timmmmmbeeerrrrrrr

NeedMoreGears · 23-06-2014 5:24pm

Slowest I've ever gone while still actually trying (hard) to go forward was a shade under 5kph on the rhs of the church in howth.

eeeee · 23-06-2014 10:56pm

I actually won the slow race on track tonight. It's one of my proudest cycling moments! :eek:

rollingscone · 23-06-2014 11:04pm

My beater's rear hub and bb are getting very rough and the rear wheel is badly out true.

Does this count as cheating in the slow races?

eeeee · 23-06-2014 11:20pm

rollingscone wrote: »

My beater's rear hub and bb are getting very rough and the rear wheel is badly out true.

Does this count as cheating in the slow races?

Only of you have brakes, gears or a freewheel. Otherwise it's merely a non performance-enhancing set up

dermo1990 · 24-06-2014 12:20am

Think the slowest I've gone was on a rainy night on Kilmashogue Lane (it started when i got there

), coming to the 20% ramp, I looked down and saw i was doing 7kph. That was soul destroying, view of a rain covered Dublin wasn't even worth it

jober · 24-06-2014 6:43am

My slowest was only last week when I climbed the kipure mast
The very last section I was down to 5km,I'd of been quicker getting off the bike and walking

Cee-Jay-Cee · 24-06-2014 1:02pm

I was in New York a few years ago and borrowed my friends bike to go for a spin the day I arrived. I was cycling nice and easy at about 15kmph but had forgotten to change the time on my watch. So I arrived back at his house having done approx 20km and changed the time on my watch. I left at 7:20pm and arrived back at 3:36pm on the same day so that works out at -37kmph....beat that!

Canis Lupus · 24-06-2014 1:53pm

When I was cycle touring there were some days you just face into the wind for the entirety with speeds of 5-6kph. In the grand scheme of months on the road it's no great shakes but when your next town/landmark is over 200km away it's a bit of a soulcrusher.

What is the Slowest Speed You've Ever Reached on Your Bike

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