Re: 120 mph +

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <21B2A2008F16D2118E7A00805F8BF7EC036465@W12WNXU01> Paul Heneghan writes:

> Now that's impressive.  The fastest I've ever gone on a bike is 40mph (down
> hill of course) and then I ran out of gears.  My largest gear is about 100".
> I would need an enormous chain wheel (90 teeth) to go at speeds like 70mph.
> A two in one hill would help . . .

I was once stopped by the police for "furious riding" down Burton Road
into Derby on a Holdsworth Apache Chieftain with a fixed 108" gear.

With the Vale of Trent being as flat as it is, I used to slipstream
behind the buses from Borrowash to Long Eaton and back.  On a good day,
with no wind or even a tailwind, I could beat the bus home over a 5-mile
stretch.  If I didn't get a good 'tow', getting up the railway bridge
at Breaston was a struggle.

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