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Ace wrote:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:09:15 +0000, BrritSki wrote: Norman wrote: "Ace" wrote in message ... Speeds of up to 100mph are recorded on some of the faster Downhill events on the World Cup circuit, so I'd suspect that your readout was correct and that your friend was misinformed. Excellent. I'll forward this to him in that case. I would agree with Ace. My push-bike has a fairly accurate (I think) speedometer and I occasionally hit 30mph on it down a steep hill. Hah, I've seen 50 on mine. Only once, mind, but I regularly used to get over 40. I too have used this as a comparitive measure for skiing speed. When I was young and foolish I spent most Sundays touring with the CTC and I'll never forget the time we were cycling out of Stow-on-the-Wold and overtook a car as we went down the long hill. We all looked at his speedo which read 40. The look on the driver's face as a pack of a dozen or so cyclists went by him was priceless. I'm sure that with the hills round here above Sanremo I could hit even more than 40, but now I'm old and not quite so foolish That seems fast on a bike, but if you imagine you're skiing rather than cycling and look around at how fast things go by, wind feel on your face, where you could turn etc., it seems very slow - I'm sure I've hit at least double that speed on skis. Aye. Thankfully snow is not normally as abrasive as tarmac. Exactly. |
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