50 mph club

[carpetbagger]

today the 50mph club is a little less exclusive. Funny thing is it didn't really feel like i was going that fast. The fact that i achieved 52mph is an even bigger surprise.Almost 38 miles,two whacking great hills,one of which i rode up had a gradient of 24% at one point.
samlesbury-waddington-dunsop bridge-ribchester by carpetbagger1 at Garmin Connect - Details

I am now going to put my feet up and watch the 'Tour'

 

[kitchenman]

Hi Mick, Can you confirm your battery spec. Is it 36V 18 Ah? ALso, have you got any photos? Be nice to see the bars with your Garmin device ...

 

[Tim]

Jawdropping performance from an Agattu there! As much for the 24% climb as the barely-subsonic descent

 

[eTim]

Welcome to the club, there is a strange transition that happens at 50+mph, time slows, yet the world continues to whizz by, you enter another dimension for those brief moments, until the bottom of the hill appears and you return to the sub-50 zone and reality

Just checking out your stats page, it's impressive, average 149bpm is some going for over 2 hours. I like the way that the graphs line up showing your effort increase and decrease along with elevation, an excellent training aid!

 

[carpetbagger]

Hi Mick, Can you confirm your battery spec. Is it 36V 18 Ah? ALso, have you got any photos? Be nice to see the bars with your Garmin device ...

Hi Alan,the battery is 26v 18ah,sorry didn't get any pics this time but i intend doing it again soon so i will get some then..

 

[carpetbagger]

Welcome to the club, there is a strange transition that happens at 50+mph, time slows, yet the world continues to whizz by, you enter another dimension for those brief moments, until the bottom of the hill appears and you return to the sub-50 zone and reality

Just checking out your stats page, it's impressive, average 149bpm is some going for over 2 hours. I like the way that the graphs line up showing your effort increase and decrease along with elevation, an excellent training aid!

yes,Garmin 500 is really good .There is a training aid that will import your rides and show gradients against time etc. Its a shame it doesn't show it on that graph though. The 149 bpm wasn't always like that,at the start of the year it was more like 168 !

 

[carpetbagger]

Jawdropping performance from an Agattu there! As much for the 24% climb as the barely-subsonic descent

I keep telling the wife that i am going to buy a camper and do Alpe D'huez next year

 

[lemmy]

yes,Garmin 500 is really good .There is a training aid that will import your rides and show gradients against time etc

You don't need a training aid, you can import any Garmin track into Google Earth and show track, speed, time against gradient.

 

[Mussels]

today the 50mph club is a little less exclusive. Funny thing is it didn't really feel like i was going that fast. The fact that i achieved 52mph is an even bigger surprise.Almost 38 miles,two whacking great hills,one of which i rode up had a gradient of 24% at one point.
samlesbury-waddington-dunsop bridge-ribchester by carpetbagger1 at Garmin Connect - Details

I am now going to put my feet up and watch the 'Tour'

I get close most days but the hills just aren't steep enough to push past the barrier, I'm thinking of getting skintight lycra and taking the panniers off!

 

[carpetbagger]

You don't need a training aid, you can import any Garmin track into Google Earth and show track, speed, time against gradient.

Just tried,it won't import direct from garmin for some reason but i mported the file from the training centre but google shows data incorrectly...supposedly 28mph which is sooooo wrong...any ideas ?

 

[piotrmacheta]

Impressive achievement. I recently did a tour in Morocco with a fully loaded up non-electric mountain bike and went down the steep side at 45mph ish and I thought i was doing well then. Running out of road and sharp hairpins slowed me down though as I reckon I might have got to 50! But many years ago I went down a hill in the Alps on my racing bike and I'm sure I hit 60mph but not sure now.
Anyway, I always mistakenly assumed the 50mph club was for people who have done 50mph+ electrically (ie assisted flat stuff) but I guess that would be a bit pushing the boundaries of off-road power a bit!