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11-05.-2005, 05:07 AM
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Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
I am curious...the other day I was riding on the road on my MTB and I came to a stop before crossing the street. The next street over was a long straight-a-way and From a dead stop and with no downslopes I got to 27.5 MPH. What kind of speeds are you folks getting with no assistance from gravity or any other means...just straight muscle power?
I just wanted to see if this was a decent speed. 
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11-05.-2005, 05:27 AM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
I have no speedo on my mtn bike!
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12-05.-2005, 05:24 AM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
A few years back I made over 50 km/h going down thru an underpass.
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12-05.-2005, 11:53 AM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
32mph flatland sprint. 47.5 mph downhill (both hardtail)
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12-05.-2005, 09:53 PM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
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Under my own power: not all that fast - 40-45k (25-28mph) I'd say. On a paved downhill: 70-80k (44-50mph), somewhere around there. Off road: 60k or so on a 1 foot wide, rocky, twisty track in gippsland. That was fun . |
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18-05.-2005, 07:58 AM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
On the flats with a dual-suspension, around 30-32 mph. In a XC race with friends several years ago, again on a dual-suspension I topped 57.5 mph going on a one-mile long downhill. Just don't ask me about my road bike speed. My wife doesn't even want to know. She had a hard enough time watching me during that race with the fast downhill.
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19-05.-2005, 08:59 PM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
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51 mph downhill tarmac same tyres. |
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20-05.-2005, 01:02 AM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
Going down on an asphalt road I made 98.1kmh, that's the fastest regularly I go down on that path at about 80-88kmh. It's about 600m long and it takes me about 5 minutes to go up, it's quite steep, a cyclist may go up in 3-3.5min or less.
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28-05.-2005, 01:30 PM
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Re: Your fastest speed on a Mountain bike!!!
30 flat and 60 downhill sprinting the whole way....on a hardtail *cheap hardtail too might i add...*
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