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when i was a wee lad i rode down a hill in Granada Hills, my dad drove next to me in his car, he told me i was about 33mph, haha not deadly accurate tho.
but ive never owned a cyclometer, anyone have suggestions on a good one? wireless? or wired? price range? any functions it MUST have?
45 something a few times either on the road from SF to LA or on ...I think it's Hawthorne down in PV area? I don't know those streets well...Randy was doing around 40 when her back tube blew...scary stuff!
63.4 mph back in '99 while flying down Mariposa Rd from Main St in Hesperia on a some old, 10-speed my stepdad found.
Thanks to some fresh rubbers and the infamous wind that never changes direction from the South, we were blazin'!!!!!
i call bs, the drag at that speed has to be ridiculous,
the best place to go really fast, laurel canyon from mulholland to ventura between 3-6 pm on a day when we have onshore winds.
if you're ballsy enough to take in those sharp banks without tapping your breaks, the best i got was 55.3. of course with a tailwind, downhill at 7% grade.
_iJunes responding to a comment by bentstrider
09.14.09 - 5:18 pm
Tailwind+slight, downhill over a distance of a 5 mile straight-away.
I stand by this and piss on your bullshit accusation because you simply weren't there, you were 11 years old at the time, and you don't know the general nature of wind conditions up here until you've lived in it.
You want me to recreate it to arouse your senses???
I think it was 44 or 45 doing down Beverly Glen to Ventura. Junu had the computer so maybe he remembers. I was coasting though, 20 pounds ago, I want to know what I'll get now.
I call BS too strider... first of all what did you use to measure the speed? second, you arent that much older than iJunes... how old were you in 1999?
Roadblock responding to a comment by bentstrider
09.14.09 - 6:17 pm
A computer similar in design to this one.
And I was 16 at the time with nothing going on due to it being Summer break at the time.
I rode down to a friends house off Ranchero Rd earlier in the day and the winds tend to pick up around the afternoon.
As usual, this was one of those days when there was heavy weather below the Pass, and we were getting the "just the wind" as normal.
Since this was the area immediately after coming up the Cajon Pass, the wind-gusts tend to be relatively stronger here than anywhere else in the desert.
Wind-speeds have been reported to have gusted up to 45+ mph.
Combine this with a slight decline and some high-gearing, with old-school drop-bars, and anything is possible.
As I said, I'm more than willing to recreate this to keep this from getting out of hand and turning me into some kind of "wolf-cryer".
just so you know, often times the speed reading on those cateyes is comes out false. in fact, more often than not your speed reading doubles. I've shown 70+mph on one of those and I know it wasn't accurate...
Roadblock responding to a comment by bentstrider
09.14.09 - 6:33 pm
Well, last time I checked, DTLA and vicinity never receive wind-gusts anywhere near the 40+mph mark.
This was all done in accordance with local conditions, conditions of the bike, myself(lighter at the time), and details like that.
This wind I consistently bitch about up here knocks over trees and rolls over 18-wheelers whenever it gets kicked up to the right speed.
And just to make sure the computer wasn't jerking my nuts, I'll get a friend to drive alongside me and record this whole thing.
fortunately the heavier you are the faster you will go down an incline so you should have an easier time attempting this again considering that you are saying you were lighter back then.... video tape that shit man and get back. you got some riding to do!
Roadblock responding to a comment by bentstrider
09.14.09 - 6:49 pm
Good, time to show all you urban-cowpunchers that the ass-end of the California desert(Nevada should just annex San Bernardino County into Clark already) is not going to be ignored.
Fine then, the loser in this battle will be pushed off a diving board into a pool full of manure!!
If I successfully recreate this with the desert conditions I mentioned before, I win.
If I spin out, fly over the bars, and wake up several hours later in a ditch, then I best get my bullshit diving suit ready for use then.
No shit!! With an old 10 speed, you would spin out by 40 mph. They definitely didn't gear them to be pedaling at 60 mph. So from 40-60 you would be gaining speed just by dropping in elevation and/or wind blowing you. You wouldn't be able to pedal at all between 40 and 60.
User1 responding to a comment by _iJunes
09.14.09 - 7:45 pm
one time, at root run, someone's computer topped out at 74. I didn't have a computer at the time but now that i do, I want to do that route again and see if we can beat it.
West Coast does not get hurricanes, we may get the left-overs from some overseas typhoon, but that's about it.
Anywho, could we please stop discussing my speed-tale now?
Last thing I need is artillery salvos coming over the San Gabriel mountains and raining fire down on my ass.
we may not get hurricanes but there are some seriously fierce winds blowing up north along the coast. I witnessed first hand riding on ALC ftw!
I think your speed tale has assumed a life of it's own now... you may have to come through with the video to quell this proverbial storm you've created!
Roadblock responding to a comment by bentstrider
09.14.09 - 7:55 pm
Edwards AFB??? I dong remember...I do know the wind wasn't quite as bad...but that mean the tailwind on the straight away wasn't as good either...can't wait to do it again!
TheJen responding to a comment by Roadblock
09.14.09 - 8:02 pm
I shall, this story is becoming as heated as to the ongoing argument of whether I fell asleep at the wheel, or the owner-op in the two-bit, rock-train did.
62.6 mph.
Down Towne Pass into Death Valley. I was getting nervous and would untuck and slow to about 50-55. Topped 60 three different times on the same descent. It's a long, straight, 4000+ ft descent with a tailwind.
root run does some pretty insane shit. it will be easier to believe if we can see two computer readings that agree with each other. knowing ryan, he'll do it just to prove it to himself.
Actually the land speed record for a bicycle was done at Boniville salt flats
I forgot the guys name but he was a national champ several times over.
He did it on a special bike with suspension and fairing.
he was towed up to speed by a cable, sheltered by a large fairing on
the back of the car. once up to speed the cable was detached and he
pushed a monster gear creating the record. It was over 100 mph
I did about 45 going downhill on Sepulveda Pass on the last Wolfpack I went on. Seems pretty common given the nice descents we've got around here.
Old 10-speeds did have pretty tall gears, too tall for the kind of riding people did IMHO. It was pretty typical to find 52-12 or 52-13. I still don't believe bentstrider hit 63 mph though.
Yup, wireless computers go crazy all the time, and it's not unheard for wired ones to fail too.
Lol. No one believes strider. I believe bike punk because I've done that descent into death valley and it gets scary as shit. I didn't have a computer but I think I did about an honest fiddy. I had no gloves and it was december 8am. Cold.
I'm interested in this hisperia straight away. What's the traffic like? Can we have a 5 mile Wolfpack straight away race?
Does the metrolink go there?
Roadblock responding to a comment by cabhauler
09.14.09 - 9:26 pm
Lol. No one believes strider. I believe bike punk because I've done that descent into death valley and it gets scary as shit. I didn't have a computer but I think I did about an honest fiddy. I had no gloves and it was december 8am. Cold.
I'm interested in this hisperia straight away. What's the traffic like? Can we have a 5 mile Wolfpack straight away race?
Does the metrolink go there?
Roadblock responding to a comment by cabhauler
09.14.09 - 9:27 pm
Wow man you are taking this a little too personal I think. You have to know that these kinds of challenges happen all the time. No one means any genuine malice to you. C'mon buddy this shit is funny you have o admit. You are going to prove everyone wrong anyway. Let's make a race out of it.
Roadblock responding to a comment by bentstrider
09.14.09 - 9:31 pm
No, the Metrolink doesn't go here, the fuckheads in charge of BNSF and UPRR need to be disposed of promptly.
Traffic, it's heavily traveled during the day, but when there's enough of us, people will calm down.
As far as it being 5-mile straight-away, the intersection of Mariposa Rd and Main St near the 15 on/off ramp has changed in the last 10 years.
More stoplights and slightly more development thanks to OC and LA County rejects throwing money into cheap-housing.
But, it's still worth doing, I just got to make sure my friend will remember how to operate and hold the camera.
Too much bad luck has befallen me within the last, two years.
Without you guys, I might have sunken into a deeper-funk that I might not have crawled out of.
Only reason I'm putting my back into this is because I feel that my life needs a little more aggression.
High speed and blowing signals in the desert seems to be the best way to break the village monotony.
Bents, don't be bummed. Maybe San Berdoo County will exercise their eminent domain powers one day over the UPRR tracks in order to get Metrolink service through SB and over into the tri-cities area where you are. LA used eminent domain against the SPRR to start Metrolink. SPRR fought back but lost. Seems to me a proper use of eminent domain powers to provide public transportation.
Hey, I've got the same cyclocomp and it works for me. Here's my max speed ever, 41.2 MPH, on my foldie ---->
That was at last July's SFVCM, downhill on Haskell north of Plummer at the VA. Steep and moderately long, but it has a traffic light at the *bottom* of the hill!! Sexy directed the start; he's figured the right countdown to use at the start so the light is *green* when you get to it.
This guy next to me was going quite a bit faster... on a beat up MTB with knobbies roaring and pedals spinning like crazy. I have a 56 T chainring and he was still beating the crap out of me on his MTB gears!
I know a perfect route in Pasadena / San Marino or any one of the other awesome hills. I have hit 52+ MPH on this hill a few times. Los Robles/ Chaney Canyon Road. is tons 'o' fun as well.
Drag force goes up as the square of velocity, but what this means is that the power required to overcome that force goes up as the cube of velocity. So doubling your speed takes eight times as much power to overcome drag.
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If you have a bike computer what does your top speed readout say and what street was it on?
46mph down the kamakaze in '91 or '92 norba finals .ive gone faster on the streets but havent cared enough to remember where or when
Bents, don't be bummed. Maybe San Berdoo County will exercise their eminent domain powers one day over the UPRR tracks in order to get Metrolink service through SB and over into the tri-cities area where you are. LA used eminent domain against the SPRR to start Metrolink. SPRR fought back but lost. Seems to me a proper use of eminent domain powers to provide public transportation.
