Semi OT: Fastest you ever went

[Ryun]

On a bike low 50s

In a car 163 on the back straight at vir in my track
Prepped m3

[mhespenheide]

I went to college at Pomona College, at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains. Worked for the college for a couple years after graduating. Young and without many responsibilities, I rode a lot and rode the Mount Baldy climb often. I liked climbing and descending.

I timed myself on the descent from Mount Baldy Village to the flats above Claremont: 6 miles in eight and a half minutes. Sustained 42mph average. Still a respectable time twenty years later, I think.

[PeregrineA1]

53 on my Spectrum going down Imperial Hwy towards SART from the south. Won’t do that again....

Driving ~140 in a buddy’s 1988 930.

Riding in Richard Petty NASCAR ride along deal, 165ish on the wrong side of the car. The wall gets really close.

On the water, at the helm, ~80 in a 38’ Fountain with a pair of 502 Big blocks. Awesome sound.


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[GregL]

Pedaling: 43.3 MPH on our tandem during a time trial. 54x11 gear, slight downhill.

Coasting: 57 MPH on several occasions on the short, steep hills of central NY.

Driving: approximately 110 in my Fox body Mercury Capri, redlined in top gear, on the straight at Lime Rock.

As a passenger: approximately 125 in a 1976 Trans Am, 455/4-speed/3.08 rear axle. All pollution gear removed, headers into dual exhaust. Nearly two tons of classic '70s Detroit iron hitting terminal velocity on a closed airport runway...

Flying: 522 knots TAS in a Sabreliner 60SC. At the intersection of the airspeed/Mach limit on the "barber pole" at 26,000 feet. Only time I could truthfully claim I flew at 600 MPH. Looking forward to Old Potato chiming in with his fastest ride in an F-4 or F-14!

Greg

[GregL]

Originally Posted by saab2000

About .85 Mach at work. I've seen a ground speed of 617 knots. Big tailwind.

Old Potato has probably seen 2.5x that speed.

One winter day back in 1989-1990, I managed to catch a 200 knot jet stream between PIT and BTV. 45 minutes eastbound at 650 knots over the ground. On the the way back, 1:30. Saw 200 knots on the nose once in a Citation 500 and contemplated getting out to walk...

Greg

[rrudoff]

Bike: 62 mph

Car Driving: 130 mph in Germany, Rental Volvo V70 had snow tires so that was the max safe speed, also in UK in Escort RS turbo many years ago. I think that is about my limit on any road, slowing down takes a long time at those speeds.

Car Riding: Somewhere in excess of 150 in a 911, not in a place we should have been doing it when I was quite young (Let's just say in LA city limits)

[saab2000]

Originally Posted by GregL

One winter day back in 1989-1990, I managed to catch a 200 knot jet stream between PIT and BTV. 45 minutes eastbound at 650 knots over the ground. On the the way back, 1:30. Saw 200 knots on the nose once in a Citation 500 and contemplated getting out to walk...

Greg

Now is the time of year I can't stand east-west flights. We do east coast to California flights that are the better part of 6 hours...... No thanks!

[BikeNY]

Bike: About 55mph down Terrible Mountain into Ludlow VT

Driving a car: Somewhere north of 240kph (150mph) numerous times on the Autobahns in Germany in various rental cars. It's surprising how many cars can reach that speed given enough road!

[redir]

I hit 61MPH on my bike on one of the local descents many years ago. Can't go that fast there anymore as they put in more roads and driveways and it would just be too dangerous.

I had a Mercedes e420 and when I was in Florida one time I was dying to see what the thing really had. I went up to 135 and she had more but I got too worried. It was on Rt95, 5 lanes, dead straight and no one else was around. Not even a cop

[velotel]

On my bike I pretty regularly still hit over 70 and 80 kph on various descents but I know I've done faster in the past. Must be getting old. Not sure of the top speed in a car but once on the return from San Marino to France I did all of Italy (on a Sunday) between 200 and 250. The 200 was when I slowed to pass a police car. Then I was back up in the 240-250 range. My wife was sleeping. This was in a modified 300 ZX non-turbo I brought over to France when I moved. I think the fastest on a bike was either on the descent from Cormet d'Arêches on the south side with Maxn on a wild weaving sort of tight ass straight that was insanely fast or else on the descent on the north side of the Izoard in a section where a couple of times I momentarily wondered if maybe I wasn't going a bit too fast. Apparently I wasn't.

[zap]

57mph downhill on a bicycle.

Automobile........to date nothing very impressive. OK, it would freak out most civilians but me........shrug.

[Steve in SLO]

Lots of speed demons here… I like it!
Bike: 65 mph on a long descent in the Sierras, followed by the most scary high speed wobbles as I slowed past 50mph. I still shudder when I think about it, and ot was nearly 20 years ago.

Car: 165 in my GT-3 on an oped stretch of Calif backroad with visibility for days and nothing to hit. The car kept wanting to go, but I did not.

Motorcycle: 145–150mph on my 2004 R1. My helmet was shaking so hard I couldn't really read my top speed.

[Seramount]

bike: 58 mph while descending Trans-Mountain Hwy in El Paso, TX

car: 160+ mph (buried the speedometer needle) in my friend's 1968 427 L-88 Corvette

have rolled my Acura RSX Type-S to ~130ish...felt like it would do more, but trying to be more prudent in my old age.

was recently at the controls of a friend's Mooney M20C, ground speed was 211 mph...

fast is fun.

[sokyroadie]

Bike - mid 50's with a stop sign at the bottom of the hill.

Car - 1974 Z-28 Camaro - 125 mph - young and dumb

Boat - 90 mph on radar - pickle fork tunnel hull, big block on nitrous turning 7200 rpm the boat had run 120 mph with a bigger motor.

[bicycletricycle]

54mph, Highway 154 into Santa Barbara, old Serotta Nova Special X, no helmet, on a group ride out of Fasttrack. Seeing a group of riders stretched out in front of me swooping down the mountain was super cool.

135mph in an old crap Lexus LS400 on a really long on ramp and a little bit of the highway, stupid..... surprised that big boat could do it.