130kph!!!!!!!! can anybody beat that?

130km/h - is that all? Have a look at http://www.solar.york.ac.uk/ and ride the bike at warp-speed ...

When we were younger, the big thing at the end of each training ride was to see who had registered the highest speed of the day. But when you're 18 coming off doesn't seem all that bad. I've noticed it hurts far more now days, and takes a bloody age to recover.

Also into my 50's - once got 45 mph (according to my speedo)
Must be an age thing - i thought "bugger - front tyre blowout"!!
30 - 35mph nowadays fast enough thankyou

@ seabass - i currently use endomondo and usually am happy with the accuracy. It has though at times recorded me at doing 70kph on the flat with a headwind!! It has also dumped me in the middle of the Irish Sea even though I live just outside Glasgow!!! I use the GPS mainly to record route and guage climbing etc. For speed, cadance, distance I use a wireless computer.

83kph, read from a speed sensor...and bloody scary, but it was a straight descent..and yes, 1mm of lycra aint gonna save the day if things go bad...my last off was at 30kph, only saving grace was the wet road I slid across, leg was a wee bit mangled, but I lived to tell the tale... and chicks dig scars....

Get me up to forty mph and I have visions of a front wheel puncture. It's not a pleasant thought.

Saw 64mph on old school wired wheel sensor cateye once. As a motorcyclist too I started mentally comparing the consequences of an off in a millimetre of lycra versus several mm of leather and slowed down!

Not accurate, surely that means they could been going faster

I haven't see the video, but i'd like a link to it

Personal record is just short of 60mph, flashed up on a static "thank you" speed reader and also on my old skool speedo

But if they are going on GPS stats then it could be way out, for instance, i once travelled at 1331mph on mine, it also lost signal one time and when i can back, for a few seconds i was in the middle of the north sea having travelled over 100 miles in 17 seconds, so the slightest thing can cause GPS to be wildly inaccurate

personally i'm not convinced that GPS devices (that all teams seem to use these days) can be trusted for an accurate maximum speed. The sampling rate and margin for error just make it a bit of a lottery. If you're going down a mountain descent and your GPS picks up a reflected signal from a rock face, it can put your position out by tens of metres, that's enough to give you a serious speed boost

lame!! Mind you I am a 53years old, fat, old fart on a 531 steed!!

I thought that was hilarious,,,,

I too am the North end of the big 50, maybe not so fat, certainly old fart and my nearly 50 MPH downhill with serious wind behind (natural) a little while ago was absolutely frightening. Can't remember too much other than holding on both hands on the drops and my buttocks clentching the saddle, I really dont know how they can do it and look so confident - that is one hell of a speed.

As I wipe away a tear of laughter.....
Trikeman.