- I've been reading through the comments
to find out exactly what you would like us to ask the pros.
So I'm gonna do just that and hopefully try and
catch a few napping too because a lot of them
have just arrived after a long flight.
Wonder what they're gonna say.
What's the fastest you've ever been on your bike?
- Its funny you actually say that,
the other day I got 115K an hour
down a climb here in Sterling.
It's probably not the right road to do it,
I won't say which road it is.
But we'd always on the way to a bunch ride here in Adelaide
we used to go for that and it just
goes straight down like that, we were
pretty happy but mum and dad weren't.
- Fastest you've ever been?
- 132k an hour. Sierra Nevada, downhill.
- What was going through your mind, nothing?
- Nothing just (bleep) I hope I don't crash.
(laughter)
- I think like 100k an hour. The annoying thing,
actually I got a story about this.
So I've never seen 100k an hour on my computer before.
Last year in Torino, we were going down a descent
and I hit 100k an hour and then about
10ks later my Garmin fell off the bike.
So I never actually got to record it (laughs nervously).
- You can't prove it? - (laughs) yeah
- Get this Blythe, 132k an hour.
- I reckon he might be telling some fibs there. We'll see.
- I remember 106/7 somewhere in California, in some races.
Big roads - Wide open roads right?
- Over 100 something, Tour of Swiss I think,
on a descent Tour of Swiss somewhere.
- That's a popular place, the Tour of Swiss?
- Yeah Tour of Swiss, one of those big ones.
Dunno what it was but I do also remember one time
looking down over the edge in Tour of Swiss
and actually just thinking about all the consequences.
That's never a good idea.
Most of the time you feel pretty comfortable,
even at that speed but you don't want
to start thinking about what could happen.
- That's right, you'd rather just follow the bunch.
- And once you start thinking that,
the rest of that descent's over.
- I always get asked that question,
but I'm never really looking down to check.
I've answered this question before,
probably about, its over 100, I think its like 109
and it was in the Tour of Britain.
- Really? - I wish I knew where it was
but there was these hills, it was really safe
because you could see the other side of the hill.
I think that's the key, if you can see where
you're going you can just let the brakes go
and we were fanging down there,
you're like "Oh yeah we're going quick"
and then its so steep that you're just like
"I'm just gonna go airborne over the next hill"
Halfway up I was like " Ah (bleep) this hill is steep as"
(laughs)
- Good question, two times stand out for me.
The 2012 Tour of Colorado, we went down Independence Pass
and we hit 121ks an hour, going in a straight line.
The whole peloton after this big, long, straight dip
actually all calmed down a lot
and we all looked at each other and said
"What are we doing? We're in a non-important part
"of the stage, we just went over 120k
"and if one of us clipped it, we're all dead".
The second time which was probably even scarier
was I caught 123 in a Tour of Austria
coming down, I forget the name of the climb,
I hit 123 and Matej Mohorič came past me like a steam train.
We were all talking about it that night
and I never actually asked Mohorič
what his final top speed was but he was
on the top chute and we were all freaking out,
couldn't believe what happened.
So 123 is my max, but it's not the fastest I've seen.
- So there we are, the answers of the pros.
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