gopro camera: 60 mph (~100 km/h) on a road bike

[@Mike649foxx]

This is nothing. I went 65mph in my car on the way home from work.

[@AJ-bi6ns]

+Mike 649Foxx You daredevil, you!

[@Mike649foxx]

Alex S hahaha

[@BabyFaceDon]

Mike 649Foxx I went 70 miles home from work ... hope the cops don’t get me

[@grindupBaker]

Ah yes but was it down hill ?

[@puffcatco]

l0l m8

[@librazone]

It was your lucky day on that corner.

[@weir-t7y]

librazone didn't seem like he was even trying to lean

[@foreignkeys3980]

with thin tires like those I wouldnt dare try

[@ALLIWANNADOISCOMMENT]

with 28mm tires this wouldnt ever ever happen not even close but with those pencils hes riding on looks like 23's you cant turn for shit. you cant turn really at all

[@Cody6210]

I hit 100kph on a mountain bike going down a very steep hill in quesnel B.C. Was passing cars but then my brakes melted away so i coasted through town with my foot on a tire trying to stop. It was fun but I would not do it again lol

[@RollLandOh08]

Does it hurt. 😂😂😂

[@Cody6210]

Roll Land Oh hard to breathe from the wind and wore my sole of the shoe out lol

[@jcims]

I rode down a steep hill in NW Pennsylvania with my brother and some friends on crappy old 20" banana seat junker bikes. My dad was following us in a truck and we got up to 45mph or so. I had really tall gears and was pedaling like crazy when the chain came off the sprockets. Of course at that point, NO BRAKES!!! Well, Flintstone brakes...which are tough at 45 mph lol. It seems i lived.

[@RollLandOh08]

At least You tried

[@Vanadium]

***** if you really get down this fast you could not possible had some offroad tires on it. at 60kph most 29" will shake your bike a bit but if you hit 80khp it is freaking shaking more then you ride just downhill in the woods with lower speed...

[@roninalienman]

It takes a lot of guts to ride a road bike at 60mph. My personal best is 50mph and it was scary. Nice work!

[@BIGDO13]

50 MPH is scary as shit... lol... so 60 must've felt that much crazier... not much else you can do on those corners except, look where you want to go... look where you want to go!!

[@violian5]

Would be suck to hit a pot-hole while doing 60 on a bike.

[@mrcommentator7406]

.... eh ..... urm ............... .. .... . nahhhhhhhhh

[@searay3340]

OK, now go up with 20 mph.

[@Hirotoro4692]

Shimano Ice-Tek discs can brake from 60 mph all day long. They're brilliant. The bike feels totally stable at speed.

[@Lar308]

I don't let my bike exceed 40 unless its a very long straight road - how would you stop if there was some obstruction around one of those bends?

[@tylermangum4958]

Very, very suddenly

[@AvesZephyros]

I think they made sure there was nothing.

[@tmangum89]

EaglehawkAves No, we just winged it. We actually almost ran in to some turkeys going down the other side.

[@AvesZephyros]

tmangum89 Oh... Then you have some balls of steel.

[@archetypex65]

You wouldn't. The drive for risk varies for everyone. 100k is one of my goals

[@tmangum89]

Yes, Eugene (Oregon) roads are amazing and the drivers are beyond friendly and safe. It's a great place to ride.

[@TheTuxedoCats]

I remember my first time riding down a hill without training wheels. This is SO WEAK. I do 60 uphill in my driveway while making a sandwich and playing Tetris.

[@hammyguybb25]

that did not even look close to 60

[@r-series8705]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@r-series8705]

Mrvenividivici2012 67mph?? Jesus..

[@adrenalineaddiction]

Nice clips! Keep it up!

[@BananaGamingYT]

Hi! I love your videos!!!! Keep up the great work!!

[@Braahification]

That's so cool ! I've once hit 64km/h with my trackbike, it was an unique sensation, but to hit 100, even if it's on a roadbike. It must be like heaven. But here in France the roads aren't so good looking

[@niall300zx]

the camera must be decieving. Ive been 50kph on my single speed and it felt incredible fast

[@davidtheguitarman]

i'd never dare to go 60mph on a thin road bike

[@kwascytrynowy]

pussy 8)

[@thhorwitz1]

In a lot of amateur stage races the entire field does over 60 down mountain roads.

[@ahmedmohammed6568]

Rally Me oh then u try it for yourself on some skinny tires you will probably reach 5 mph :)

[@sompka1]

davidtheguitarman Its much safer on a "thin" road bike than any other kind of bike. These bikes are designed to be stable at high speed.

[@kgn3779]

sompka One bump and youll need a stay in the hospital

[@ITsupportian]

I did 45mph on a flat for 15 min, passing cars. Tour de Palm Springs. The Tail Wind is mighty strong. It is safer than downhill.

[@allenazali]

Yes, I confirm Tour de Palm Springs has a stretch where you can reach where your heart desires at those speeds. I did 55 mph wind against your back no problem. No real compelling desire to take it faster than that. But it is a great experience if I were young again.

[@gabriel-catdifelice7588]

That wasn't 60, the speed didn't even change much from where it said 40.

[@CLK50000]

The wind resistance makes the most difference, which translates to frontal area. A skinny person (in a similar position) has a similar wind resistance and is much lighter. This means that the wind resistance works much faster on the lighter rider, slowing them down.

[@hmongwild]

oh shit". i tough i was gona fall off the couch when u hit the water. then i fell off when u made that sharp turn. my body hurts from watching this. lol. great crazy video guys.

[@prasadmanjulago]

seriously man i felt the same.

[@benedward8559]

When he moved his head I thought he was coming off.

[@MasterMrMister]

Now do it on a longboard.

[@SuperMudbog]

It's a little scarier but doable!

[@WTFskatingrugbyguys]

Another scary thing is when you go fast around a corner and you can feel the bike sliding sideways.

[@Zlyzer]

exactly, because the additional gravitational pull generated by the greater mass of a larger person more than makes up for the extra friction on the tyres.

[@ryanrussell6256]

If you dont believe that the speed was around 60 mph, simply check out the time frame when they were claiming around 55mph. In the pass zone there are stripes on the road. The intervals typically have average distances (which police used before radar to catch people speeding to "clock" people). Rate= distance/ time. Id do the math now, but A) I am not questioning their speed. B) I have way better shit to do.

[@jonoj45]

knowing my luck, a bear would walk out of the woods and I would explode through his body and die.

[@ThePmohl]

It's actually F_g=GMm/(r^2), so a_g=GM/(r^2) which is independent of the rider's mass. Another way to look at it: In freefall, everything accelerates at 9.8 ms^-2, so going down a hill, everything accelerates at 9.8sin(theta) ms^-2 where theta is the angle of the hill.

[@sarmatiancougar7556]

That man corners like savage. Lots of respect bruh.

[@Xcelerate2]

@AlbertDVX Okay, I think I know what you're talking about. But that's not manipulating gravity. That "tucked" position is to minimize frontal cross sectional area. This reduces the drag force from air resistance, which does have a significant effect on speed.

[@Esudao]

@spaisios well on tires that are like 23 mm wide, aquaplaning is an issue at ~140 km/h, so no risk there. but i agree, with a slightest turn on water with that velocity, the tires probably would lose grip very fast.

[@PomeroyJ100]

if you really wanna get crazy about the speed, the video is filmed in real time and the road is marked with regulation road markings that are set at a standardized distance from one another. Just saying.

[@prasadmanjulago]

god i watched this full screen and i felt the adlerine rush when you hit the water surface area and the corner.damn..my maximum is 84kmph.im not a pro racer.good luck.ride safe.

[@jakeh3236]

Well done for achieving that speed on a long descent, it was inevitable that you would hit a high speed. Shout out to gravity for doing most of the work!

[@ThePmohl]

Larger riders will be slightly faster though because they have a smaller surface area to volume ratio. Area increases with the square of a characteristic dimension whereas volume increases with the cube, so the larger the rider, the smaller that ratio. Aerodynamic drag is proportional to surface area, and gravitational force (not accel) is proportional to mass (i.e. volume) so a larger body means a larger drag force (by the square), but an even larger gravitaional force (by the cube).

[@DrFearCo]

Also, that 9.8 m/s/s only applies until the force due to gravity matches the force of wind resistance i.e terminal velocity.

[@StereoMike06]

Done 48 with a MTB on a local hill with a horrible frost heave at the bottom which completely compressed my suspension and took much skill to stay on. That turn must have been even worse!

[@dietrickkooyman2754]

It’s pretty grate when your going that fast and on camera it looks so slow but when your actually on the bike doing the speed, it feels so much faster.

[@bridgetraveler7700]

My dad said that when he was on a single bike he couldn't get the speed over 35 mph on a flat road or on a road that had hills. Me and my dad have a tandem bike so one time we got our bike to go up to 45 mph on a road in our town. It was very steep.

[@dougfitchmusic]

Once went 68 miles per hour in a large pack of other professionals. This was in 1988 descending from Lake Tahoe area on a very wide divided highway (don't recall the name). It was a large pack of around 120 riders and we had a a severe tailwind. My bike handled very unfamiliarly and it was pretty terrifying. Also, matched that same 68mph speed on my tandem with my wife after I retired. This was coming down Wolf Creek Pass in southern CO with, again, a severe tailwind. It was much more stable.

[@CLK50000]

Some responders here seem to think that cyclists defy the laws of physics, when they don't. The easiest way to understand it is in a practical sense and experience actually cycling. But its the greater mass combined with only slightly more wind resistance. This combination causes the heavier object to fall through the wind (air) faster. Think why a feather falls to the ground slower than a baseball. You can take two identical twin cyclists and add 50lbs to one bike and see which descends faster.

[@CLK50000]

Yes, I have received a speeding ticket on my bike before when descending a mountain road on my bicycle. A bicycle in most states is considered a vehicle and the vehicle code applies. Some states have separate laws for bicycles and may not have a code for excessive speed on a bicycle. I also received a ticket for following to too closely to the car in front.

[@rickrude6301]

My fastest speed ever was 67 KM /42 MPH on my mtn bike. I was pedaling at max rpm down a bridge with a strong wind on my back. My gears did not go high enough to go faster. 60 MPH is crazy fast! With such skinny tires, the smallest pot hole, tree twigs, leaves, stones or garbage on the road could wipe you out.

[@nihonnewbie]

Meaning, at ~1:25 into the video, he was carrying so much speed into the corner that he was forced to take a very wide line through it, and as such, his tires were on the white line that demarcates the edge of the pavement. It could also be summarized as "HOLY SHIT, I ALMOST RAN OFF THE ROAD!"

[@veicsu]

have you ever heard of "point fixation"?

[@tmangum89]

@UlasAktok You're not accounting momentum in to the equation. A Bowling ball with that weighs 5 kg versus a tennis ball that weighs 50 g rolled down the same hill will roll much faster (p=mv) and carry more momentum at the bottom. Also, drag factor plays a huge role in the equation, as wind affects someone who is lighter drastically more than that of someone who is 20kg more. As a side note, I weight substantially less than the rider in front of me (62 kg to his 76 kg)

[@mrblibrules]

you're super lucky. Here in England, cars drive like you're not even there! :)

[@tmangum89]

No. When you're on a road bike you don't turn your handlebars, but more adjust your weight on the outside of the bike and lean in to the turn (which I obviously didn't do well enough here). Your bars actually stay relatively straight.

[@straatman12345]

@CycleMan2200 you gotta remember that the camera shows it slightly slower than what there actually are going because of the zoom, i replayed skiing vids and found that :)

[@Btraffers]

remember kids. brake early, and look where you wanna go and always take the corner outside inside outside.

[@Bstonz85]

I live in Okinawa, Japan and it's quite heavy on the traffic side and I ride with headphones in every time I go out.

[@AndroidGameplaysgames197991]

Wow man.... 100 kph!! Respect man....

[@vahnn0]

I can bust 40 on the flat ground in my town for a few blocks, and it's fast. 60 mph going down hill through water and then a curve... You're nuts! Good stuff.

[@Alexanduurrr]

I hit 55 coming down Willamette hill, and timed the light so I could keep it going, almost until I hit Tsunami books on 26th/Will. I want to go up near King Estate winery and see how the downhill goes.

[@assman12354]

@badazz876 not really with body building, it does build new and differant muscles, but you can get those faster from weights

[@TheFacesZ31]

You can't hydroplane, but wet tires also lose traction much easier when going around a turn. I think that was his point.

[@dodgyman1]

You're lucky to have such smooth roads there... If I tried anything like this in the UK I would almost certainly hit a pothole or area of disintegrating road surface, fall off my bike and horrifically injure myself :\

[@livingshangrila]

My heart stopped at the end of the hill when you turned your head. I thought you were going down. :p

[@ThePmohl]

Good point, I hadn't thought about friction with the road being dependent on mass. I'm an aerospace engineer, so my mind immediately went to wind resistance haha

[@ChuckD59]

Similar experiences, both during competition. One was descending from Whiteface Mountain, NY and another out around Syracuse somewhere. Both radar clocked by NYS Troopers at 70+ mph who complimented us on our skills afterward. You do enter another surreal world of biking when you hit those kinds of speeds. Terrifying and alluring...x10!

[@BigDuck786]

That was very very close. Thought you'd ride into one of the trees hadn't you stopped before hand.

[@TimTheMusicMan]

oh wow, that water puddle was scary. I did 48 once, and that was 20mph too fast for me..

[@archetypex65]

You ran wide on the exit of that sweeping left. Not enough counter steering. Perhaps a bit of target fixation too. Good thing you kept it on two!

[@chrishuey2111]

I've done Greenhill many times, exceeded 50 on occassion, but 60 is crazy.

[@Wiscompton608]

Woah, almost made my heat stop with that curve at the end there, haha. Scared the shit outta me. My buddy who's a pro has broken both of his wrists, on separate occasions, getting cut off at that speed, gnarly stuff!

[@lightdark00]

Yesterday going over 35 mph in the black of night on an frontage road for an interstate scared me a bit, it's the first time I ever considered a helmet would be nice. I'll try for more during the day some time soon. I have a hybrid with 38cc tires, inflated at 58psi, so don't expect much more :)

[@Cody6210]

try doing 60 on a mountain bike while watching your brakes melt away. I was forced to pass cars on the shoulder in corners. I was sure I was going to lose it but I held it together and decided I really need disk brakes and a helmet lol

[@A_youtube_channel_]

The fastest I've gone on my mountain bike was 35 on a flat road, had to pedal like crazy with those fat tires and the horrible aero position lol

[@lopezbc]

that got my palms sweaty and my heartbeat goin!!

[@alteregoash]

fastest I've gone is 65 km/h on a hybrid, which was actually very stable, no wobble. I rode out into the middle of the lane because the shoulder was bad (and I was exceeding the speed limit). When the cars passed me on the uphill, they weren't pissed, as I would expect, they actually cheered, haha.

[@TheHardCorePunkHead]

If its not on Strava then it didn't happen!

[@cannrickyf14]

In my country, the fast, long and straight runway exist in Hightway for cars, in rural areas but with cars trafic, we have some avenue, my top speed is 41 with 10 speed cassette, compact crankset and 26/11 gear to climb, the feeling is pure adrenaline, like see fast moving camera but with your own eyes, firm handlebar grip, absolute concentration and alert, nobody want have a fail in hight speed road bicicle.

[@dazp1]

Yeah. I've managed just over 40mph on my mountain bike but it was quite narrow so i had to back off a bit. I'd love a road bike.

[@archetypex65]

Dude, 100k is awesome. I recently hit 85k and thought that was fairly fast. Nice!

[@crazycars2]

@0:54 im glad the cam doesn't capture smell...looks like he was checking to see if anyone notices those silent killers

[@usua837]

60 mph is *nothing* in cars But in Scale speed in bikes is 180, which is surprisingly fast. But, can you go 200 scale speed MPH ≈ 66.6 real mph

[@spiffcats]

my top speeds 74kmh, on a mountain bike. Going 100 on a racing bike would be so sketchy.

[@Tonyowuor]

As a guy who crashed at 28mph on my bike and still has trauma from the damn hill i crashed at. You guys are just crazy! Ya'll need jesus!!

[@smithraymond09029]

"Look mom! No brains!!"

[@proguy5920]

***** lol yup most likely

[@DancinJim]

Yes, you can tell because they value brains over recklessness.

[@WheeliePete]

Go up Fox Hollow, then turn right onto Willamette and go to the top of Willamette. it's a stair-step descent and it's wicked fast. I think it's faster than greenhill, although not as smooth. I've been meaning to get my GoPro up there for a while.

[@ozenda2]

you are crazy, in the slighest curve you can go off the road, i will never have the guts to do that

[@benzo430]

I've hit 56 mph. on a world sport with a cheesy late 80'S nylon aero disc wheel cover and aero bars. I miss that bike.

[@1ceCold037]

When I was a teenager me and my friend would go 55mph down a steep hill on our Wal-Mart bmx bikes with no hands... and no helmets.

[@teslacybertruck750]

1:24 Ive been in that situation before, it makes your heart feel super warm 😳

[@grizzlyplumber]

You got stones. My fastest ever was 44 mph, on a mountain bike in Johnstown Pa coming down the hill after having ridden the incline plane up it. I would love to add another 15 mph to that.

[@Tanner5793]

I wonder how quick you could get going descending the opposite direction on the first mile on Greenhill. I'm always afraid of someone pulling out of a driveway or a deer ruining my day

[@imthemistermaster]

on my 26 inch mountain bike with 24 gears, I hit 30 on a file with a slight decline I use one of those radar sighs that tells you your speed while your driving.

[@evfite]

High speed is a rush on a bike. I use to live in Albuquerque, NM and often rode Hwy 14 down the back side of Sandia Peak. Top speed of 78mph. Never could break that. Got to it several times.

[@atomsolomon]

I hit 52 mph and screamed like a little girl! This looks awesome!

[@spiltmilk9]

Now that I've seen the video again, I see that you did post the name of the road at the start of the video

[@combustercan]

I know exactly what you mean, i can remember doing 60 slip streaming behind a truck on the A537 Buxton road, just outside of Macclesfield. It was exhilerating and frightening at the same time & the bends are so treacherous too, all pot holed just like you said.

[@byronde]

Sick vid. absolutely cooking it down that hill!

[@commanderkilleragent]

Id start getting scared at around 40 mph XD. Id be terrified to try to break at 55-... could be bad if you breaked wrong

[@BaxzXD]

I've easily went faster than this

[@grindupBaker]

It's stones, gravel, wet, grease, bumps & cracks that would be the killers, not bad braking. I had a Hutchinson tyre roll off the rim going into a tight curve at 40 mph in heavy traffic 10 years ago. Slid around the curve on the centre yellow line on the alloy rim (tube exploded) a foot or two from oncoming traffic. Nobody even honked the horn, probably thought I was showing off hot dogging.

[@zx7-rr486]

Years ago whe I was young and dumb I hit 65mph descending the Col du Galibier. It didn't feel too bad because the road was wide and smooth. I wouldn't do it again, come of at that speed in lycra and it's gonna hurt. Plus you're hours away from a hospital .... Having said that it's hard to descend an alpine pass without hitting at least 45mph.

[@iMitchyB]

I used to regularly ride my bike at 60mph, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

[@superagnitio]

holy crap when you got into the turn I almost started crying! Christ! 50 cm more and you'd be flying into the woods!

[@ROTTERtube]

With all due respect, that was dumb. Freaked me out. Couldn't pay me to do that. My brother wiped off a motorcycle at 50mph and I saw what damage it did as I rushed him to the ER. Bad day.

[@slopcrusher3482]

Rotter Tube Reef some people have the need for speed, it’s a rush

[@Vince62965]

@jakedrechsler611 and ive just realised 100 degree's isn't that much at all it'd need to be closer to ... 150 degree angle I think which is like 30 off a verticle drop there is a clip somewhere on youtube of some guy attempting a record on a Mountain bike going down this really steep mound and he managed to hit 100 mph before the front forks gave in and he went over the handlebars

[@yukiinu5534]

hill didn't look steep enough to get to 60 mph, more like 60 kph.

[@JimGriffOne]

Fastest I've been was 55MPH on a short, straight downhill. Could've hit 70 if it was longer because it was that steep! But so dangerous with tiny bicycle brakes and thin tyres with no stopping power.

[@mmaracle374]

Looks fun, close call on the last corner.

[@Xcelerate2]

@AlbertDVX No don't do that. That's not how physics works, and you're likely to hurt yourself. Not to mention with all your weight on the front, when you slam on the breaks you'll go flying over the handlebars.

[@falcondc79]

it's amazing how the biggest hills look flat on video