DISCLAIMER – I am not planning on smashing the window on an airplane.

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    2 days ago

    31 mph is not too bad, but at higher speeds you start facing safety risks and instabilities of different kinds besides just falling over. Going downhill very fast on a road bike is not a super stable configuration. You can slip on turns, lose control on bumps, hit something you didn’t have reaction time for, etc.

    I think planes have this too where they’re safer at higher altitudes, except not too high beyond what they’re rated for and have other instabilities from that