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doing 70+ mph on a 18% grade on a bicycle is crazy. Your tires aren't wide enough to stop you, it would probably take several hundred meters to stop.
also 18% is very very very steep, there are a few hills around here that peak at 18-22%, it sucks ball riding up them, and there is one i will not ride a road bike down (24%) (mossy and wet, with a 180* corner at the end).
The fastest ive hit on my bike downhill is the mid 50's due to fear and not enough hill left. Fastest on a flat just under 40 w/o drafting. I've never had the opportunity to draft a truck on the road when on my road bike.
Now drafting i hit 44 on my mountain bike!!! behind a dump trunk, on this one road i road to work on. I didn't even notice how fast i was going i was just looking at the truck, i was at the end of the road in no time and looked down at the computer.
I wouldn't mind so much if someone was drafting me not like its worth drafting an mr2 anyway. But i wish we had some type of light on the car that signaled, hey i dont want to pass you im just gonna hang out back here and draft you.
I dont draft around here people will heavily apply the brakes for no reason other than they look down at the speedo and see omg im doing 80 slam on the brakes.
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