I have found a totally flat and smooth section of road that seems to be asphalt (around here that is rare--mostly it's chip seal which is crap to ride on), but it is .9 miles. The start is from an intersection and the endpoint is a fairly sudden elevation which would likely cause a bike to go airborne.
If I start from the intersection, do you think I could hit 160 or 170 and have room to slow way down before I run out of flat road? I've done this on much longer pieces of highway, but I never noticed how long it took me to get to 60 or so, and there was no rush to slow down.
It's a perfect piece of road with no place to for a car to come out and total visibility to the end.
It makes me a little nervous because running past either endpoint would be bad.
If I start from the intersection, do you think I could hit 160 or 170 and have room to slow way down before I run out of flat road? I've done this on much longer pieces of highway, but I never noticed how long it took me to get to 60 or so, and there was no rush to slow down.
It's a perfect piece of road with no place to for a car to come out and total visibility to the end.
It makes me a little nervous because running past either endpoint would be bad.