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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I think the Tour de France blokes were doing >100km/h on winding downhill runs. And that with what? - 4 sq cm of rubber on the road. Do they have particularly large ...... or rocks in the head???
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In Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia etc. they regularly reach above 115 km/h on the descents - pretty crazy! The fastest I have gone was around 85km/h but that was just momentarily on a relatively long straight piece of road, actually coming down from Stelvio.
The pros do crash fairly often. Check out this fabulous stunt by Lance Armstrong in 2003 when Beloki fell in front of him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtZhG...layer_embedded