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You can all call BS but, I personally have drafted many a Semi and delivery vans when I raced my bike (Bicycle) in high school and College, more than a dozen times I have seen over 60 mph on my bicycle computer. My personal best was 67mph. My personal best not drafting is 55mph (just a huge hill and a tailwind).
When we were going on certain rides I would change my big ring to a 55 tooth and adjust my front dérailleur and pay attention not to get to a bigger cog on the rear, when going slow. Hardest thing was this was back before lever shifters, my shifters were on the down tube. In the 40-50 mph range was easy as pie, it was just hard to find a Semi going that speed and to catch them at that magic acceleration speed. If they were heavily loaded or we caught them on a roll we might be able to stick with them thru that magical 30-45 mph range.
For some reason if you didnt have something like a strong tailwind or a hill that helped get you up to 35 MPH then we would almost always be too spent to maintain and gain speed and inevitably loose the draft. If the terrain stayed level and the road was smooth and the driver was steady it was surprisingly easy to go 55 mph for quite a while. When we were done we would always pull out so the driver could see us and we would yahoo and if the drivers saw us they would always give us the thumbs up.
GOOD TIMES!!!!
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