Whislt we are on the subject.

Mint Sauce · 10-12-2012 11:43PM #1

Already today I have seen two threads on what's the fastest you have travelled. So thought I would start my own, but in this case, its what's the fastest you have travelled unmotorised. i.e., without any kind of engine, just using your own body, or gravity.

Mine is 84kph, or 52mph. Was on an aluminumum framed road bike, 1.75cm wide wheels, cycling as fast as I could bravely do, down a few mile long hill. Feathering the brakes at times, clamping the top tube with my knees to reduce the speed wobbles, and praying the cyclists ahead of me did not veer into my path.

Was a little miffed when I discovered that my friend who had completed the course, not only 10 minutes ahead of me, also clocked 2kph quicker than me down the same hill, on a carbon frame.

amacca · 10-12-2012 11:47PM

approx 200km/hr

held on to the wing strut of a plane and then just let go

Dyr · 10-12-2012 11:48PM

I was walking into the kitchen there and I blinked, so I reckon thats a combined speed of 700+ mph

galwayrush · 10-12-2012 11:50PM

Currently at approx 67,000 miles per hour around the sun while spinning at about 18,000 mph.

El Guapo! · 10-12-2012 11:51PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Currently at approx 67,000 miles per hour around the sun while spinning at about 18,000 mph.

You must get really dizzy.

Isolt · 10-12-2012 11:51PM

Very, very fast during a 10,000ft skydive. Wheeeee

Chuck Stone · 10-12-2012 11:52PM

I managed 137 mph down a hill on a home made kart with pram wheels which was steered with a bit of rope tied onto either side of the front axle (bit of wood).

Access Denied · 10-12-2012 11:53PM

free falling before opening a parachute in a tandem charity skydive.

Frank Black · 10-12-2012 11:53PM

18.5miles/sec, the speed of the earth round the sun.

I'm currently traveling at this speed from the comfort of my sofa.
A far more pleasant experience than a road bike or the wing strut of a plane.

galwayrush · 10-12-2012 11:55PM

Dean09 wrote: »

You must get really dizzy.

Actually i do suffer a lot from dizziness at the weekends.:eek:

amacca · 10-12-2012 11:55PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I managed 137 mph down a hill on a home made kart with pram wheels which was steered with a bit of rope tied onto either side of the front axle (bit of wood).

mine went at 138mph (NB: I am prepared to repeat the run, take an average speed across a second run also and have this verified for the guinness book of records)

Plazaman · 10-12-2012 11:57PM

After a heavy sociable night out, I was in a shopping centre the next day minding my own business when a dose of the downtown pushdowns overtook me and I found myself touching cloth.

Now it wasn't clocked by a calibrated speedometer, however I reckon it was a landspeed record to get up one flights of stairs and an escalator to the jacks whilst only walking from the knees down.

Czarcasm · 11-12-2012 12:00AM

The last thing I remember was 35kph on the speedometer before I went over the handlebars of my mountain bike when I wedged the front wheel under the front bumper of a parked opel corsa!

I was cycling back to work in a hurry and wanted to see what the bike could do, staring at the speedometer with a pair of chocolate spread sandwiches in my hand.

I hit the windscreen of the car and burst my chin open. I pulled the bike out from under the car and sped on, thinking God only knows what the owner is going to think when he comes out and sees his windscreen covered in what looked like blood and fecal matter! :eek:

Czarcasm · 11-12-2012 12:05AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I managed 137 mph down a hill on a home made kart with pram wheels which was steered with a bit of rope tied onto either side of the front axle (bit of wood).

You don't happen to live down in Cork Chuck? The feckin' hills down there in Cork city are ridiculous!

BillyMitchel · 11-12-2012 12:08AM

I fap at a million miles an hour and got from my bed to heaven in about a gee hair of a second!

El Guapo! · 11-12-2012 12:12AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

The last thing I remember was 35kph on the speedometer before I went over the handlebars of my mountain bike when I wedged the front wheel under the front bumper of a parked opel corsa!

I was cycling back to work in a hurry and wanted to see what the bike could do, staring at the speedometer with a pair of chocolate spread sandwiches in my hand.

I hit the windscreen of the car and burst my chin open. I pulled the bike out from under the car and sped on, thinking God only knows what the owner is going to think when he comes out and sees his windscreen covered in what looked like blood and fecal matter! :eek:

Were the sambos nice?

Chuck Stone · 11-12-2012 12:39AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

You don't happen to live down in Cork Chuck? The feckin' hills down there in Cork city are ridiculous!

I do be does be livin' in Cark but this happened in a little town in norniron.

Ghandee · 11-12-2012 12:42AM

I had a bowel motion that was faster than the spotted of light once.

Never got time to drop the drawers nor turn the bathroom light on.

Czarcasm · 11-12-2012 12:51AM

Dean09 wrote: »

Were the sambos nice?

I just grabbed the bike and pedalled off as fast as my little legs could go, it was one of them raleigh activator II types with the supposedly "superior suspension". I think there was one slice of bread on the windscreen but I wasn't sticking around to inspect the damage!

Whislt we are on the subject.

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