How fast do you take a roundabout in dry but cold weather?

[CDA441]

I take small ones with at least 22mph (35km/h-ish), bigger ones at 28mph (45-isch km/h).

I'm still hesitant to go faster around corners, and roundabouts have the perfect curvature to lean into a corner.
I don't ride apex lines because they usually involve cutting through 2 lanes, and that's stupid and illegal. However I do try to keep a nice riding line while still staying in my own lane.

Be aware that I don't try to do this when there's traffic on or at the roundabout.
I try to ride them with as much lean angle as I dare to do, because I once lowsided my old bike on a roundabout and need to fix my scaredness :')

So why this question you might ask? I want to compare myself to other riders, and see if I'm still a noob after 3 years of being on 2 wheels all year round.
My riding technique is not advanced, but that's because I love my life and bike, and don't want to take any unneccesary risks (like crashing the bike).

So how fast do you take a roundabout in dry but cold weather?

 

[Undead MV]

Dry 35 Km/h
Wet 25 Km/h

I ride since may 2017

 

[dandoolittle]

If you’re looking at your speedo on a roundabout you’re doing something pretty wrong.

In the dry but cold I’ll quite happily get my knee down, all the way around but could get lapped by a guy on a 125

I could be just lent over and do 40mph but have some bloke take me out because I’m looking at my speedo

What’s the point of looking? Get round and stay alive. If you wanna go fast, get in a track and even then we don’t have speedos

 

[CDA441]

No i'm not looking at my speedo when I'm riding roundabouts, the camera will catch the speedo reading and I watch it afterwards at home
My eyes are always on the road, no matter what.

It's just that I try to get over my fear of taking corners as fast as I can (aka not holding up people behind me)

 

[HippoDrone]

Get yourself some track tuition, that will build your confidence in what a bike can do.... but a roundabout is not the best place to increase your speed, will be diesel, other cars, road repairs, grit and gravel where you least expect it.

 

[CDA441]

Get yourself some track tuition, that will build your confidence in what a bike can do.... but a roundabout is not the best place to increase your speed, will be diesel, other cars, road repairs, grit and gravel where you least expect it.

Well yeah, that's why I'm doing roundabouts. Then you know what the bike can do on the road and keeps you ready for gravel and all those other things. I did a lowside once because my rear wheel slipped on a wet diesel track. That made me more cautious about road imperfections and other dangers.

 

[Reize]

Hot or cold, if it's dry and there's no other vehicle around me, I'm taking that turn at 60-70kph.

Temperature isn't going to significantly impact your traction anyway at the kind of speeds you ride on the road. Wet roads, or roads with particles on it and old rubber will.

 

[Theodor]

As dandoolittle said, I don't look at the speedo, so no idea. Pretty sure I'm not going faster than you. It depends of so many things, including the size of the roundabout.

 

[WingManGT]

As fast as the tire would allow me . When I feel it slipping I back off a bit. Not sure how fast is that as the speedo is the last thing I look at a roundabout. My focus is not being T-boned by someone who "didn't see me".

 

[WheelyPerd]

We have these 2 inch raised "bumps" as circles, once took one at 80km/h. Got some nice air.

Its seriously not uncommon here for cars to be doing 40-50km/h, so we must not have the same kinds of roundabouts (we calls these "traffic circles").

Some of you said you could get knee down? That must sweet.

 

[CDA441]

In the Netherlands there are in fact roundabouts/traffic circles where you can do a slow kneedown.
In Belgium, not so much.
If you guys know TWAAP (TwoWheelsAndAPonytail), she made a video last year called knee down roundabout, but that roundabout was perfect, no imperfections at all.
Cars do almost the same speed as me on those roundabouts I'm talking about in the opening post, and they aren't even trying.

I have lots more to learn :')

 

[HippoDrone]

cars are faster than bike in corners.... they have 4 wheels and each wheel has a strong and large contact patch, bikes have 2 and they are not even remotely as large as the width of the tyre.... You will fall off before you pass a car on a roundabout that is giving it some!