It's your chance to brag

N05H3AD

what's the fastest you've gone on a bike, the coolest thing you've done, the longest wheelie you've done etc. basically just brag as much as you want about anything you've done on a bike, but please no bull****tin'

aftermathcrew

N05H3AD wrote:

what's the fastest you've gone on a bike, the coolest thing you've done, the longest wheelie you've done etc. basically just brag as much as you want about anything you've done on a bike, but please no bull****tin'

i once knocked my friend of his bike by nudging his handlebars!!!just messing around!!alright, my two brothers and i used to race around on bikes in our garden.we would try and knock each other off by crashing and with rocks, and we also threw sticks into each other's spoke.pretty ****ing mad!!!

liamo333

75kmh down from kilakee!!!

N05H3AD

seriously??? what bike were you on?????

liamo333

Lapierre tecnic disc (mountainbike)

liamo333

some scary s**t!

GP

98km/h

1) downhill behind a truck while out training.

2) down a mountain pass in South Africa (Fraschoek)



No 1 was quite scary for a few secs......:(

leeroybrown

Years ago (10+) a friend who was cycling to school down a particularly steep hill was pulled in at the bottom by a squad car to be reminded that the road's speed limit applied to bicycles too. I can't remember what the limit was on the stretch but it's funny none the less.

N05H3AD

leeroybrown wrote:

Years ago (10+) a friend who was cycling to school down a particularly steep hill was pulled in at the bottom by a squad car to be reminded that the road's speed limit applied to bicycles too. I can't remember what the limit was on the stretch but it's funny none the less.

tis boy!

Alkers

Top speed I've measured was 62.5km/hr coming down the hill in Eniskerry but that was on a long travel freeride frame and with 2.5" knobblys, then hard on the brakes and knee almost to the ground taking the corner :eek:

rubadub

56km/hr on a MTB on the N11 near cornelscourt, it was breaking the limit at the time (so was ever car I saw), if you get a good run of the lights you can pick up good speed.

freakylily

Ok, the cool stuff was going at top speed down a huge hill in the South of Germany, primarily because I wasn't too happy about the next steep hill, after a road crossing the valley.

It's at times like these when you stop staring at your little gadget telling you how fast you are, and wonder: what happens if a tiny stone sends me flying... but speed is (sadly, some people miht say) far too intoxicating and fascinating a feeling to let you ponder the chances of turning your body into a nice piece of pulp... You just live in that moment, and then thank God or destiny etc. that you're still alive to tell the tale.

The uncool stuff: outside Galway, had just changed my brakes - which actually meant that instead of having next to no brakes at all, I suddenly had that wonderful feeling that your wheels will actually stop at short notice... I was late for a movie. missed my turn and use my new brakes, a bit too enthusiastically...and landed on Headford Road before the round-about with my bike landing on top of me, my leg in particular.

The funny thing is, I actually cycled then after the movie all the way to Renmore! But the next day I couldn't bend my leg for love nor money... so went to the E&A - not my first time there...and asked if I could go on a hike in 3 days' time!

Ah well...'Tis only a flesh wound - Monty P. fans, you'll understand... :cool:

liamo333

Was anyone at the race in banbrige yesterday? How did you do? I got 3rd with a flat tyre:eek:

milod

55kmph on Howth road between Sybil Hill and Raheny - no hills! flat road and just pedal power. My speedos broken but there's one of those speed limit signs with a digital display that tells you how fast you're going... Not bad for a 40y/o crock on a Specialised Cirrus hybrid IMHO.

mockerydawg

59mph coming down the hills into glengariff on my old raleigh ravine - could have hit 60 but dont know as my speedo didnt have a max fucntion. How scary is it to try look down and focus on a screen moving at 50+ mph!!!!

41mph on college road along by marly with a savage wind behind me on a road going mtb

robfitz

leeroybrown wrote:

Years ago (10+) a friend who was cycling to school down a particularly steep hill was pulled in at the bottom by a squad car to be reminded that the road's speed limit applied to bicycles too. I can't remember what the limit was on the stretch but it's funny none the less.

Not it doesn't, at least not anymore.

Road Traffic Act 2004
...
47.--(1) A person shall not drive a mechanically propelled vehicle at a speed exceeding the speed limit--
(a) that applies in respect of that vehicle, or
(b) that applies to the road on which the vehicle is being driven where that speed limit is lower than that applying to that vehicle.
...

Guess what? A bicycle is not a "mechanically propelled vehicle".

Though I guess you could be done for driving a bicycle in a dangours manor.


My top speed is 66.7 km/h going down the Dundrum Bypass which has a 50 km/h speed limit.

DonkeyRhubarb

I tend to get a lot of speed on the tarmac road at tick nock. Scares the bejasus outta me cos there are corners. The brakes always work, but it's trying to get that balance of front / back break to give max stopping power while not going over the handly bars.

Last saturday, I was flying down that road and I saw a family ahead. The mother had her head down and looked up. I WILL NEVER FORGET THE LOOK ON HER FACE!!!:D :eek:

It was one of pure terror as I came hurtling toward her. She scooped up her daughter and ran for the side of the road. Ah man, if you were only there. Ill never forget that look:D

HusseinSarhan

That's an absolutely fantastic way to help the public profile of Irish mtbing... terrifying a mother and her young child when out walking.

Cop on please.

There is nothing wrong with going fast but show respect to others out on the hills.

Alkers

I can't see a reason for taking that tarmac road down 3rock either? Presume you mean the fireroad - there's so many ways of coming down without getting in the way of other people. If you mean the actuall road at Ticknock Hill then fair enough.
Otherwise, Gill Dub is getting together a list of emails and no.s of people who are up for an easy-paced, get back into regular cycling kinda thing. Pm him your details.

OSiriS

Got 70MPH on my old mountain bike past the quarry in Feltrim. If I recall correctly, I could have gone faster, but all that dust on the road scared the hell out of me.

billyblanks

OSiriS wrote:

Got 70MPH on my old mountain bike past the quarry in Feltrim. If I recall correctly, I could have gone faster, but all that dust on the road scared the hell out of me.

not too far aff this then....... http://www.speedski.com/mountainbike.htm

OSiriS

27MPH is quite a way off that.

kincsem

75.6 km/hr coming back towards Enniskerry in the Wicklow 100 today. I've just checked my cycle computer. What was worse was I looked at it and saw that reading as I was "falling" down that hill.