Jens Voigt, 51.115km, at the Velodrome Suisse. 43 years of age. What a machine.
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Hour Record
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Posted 9 years ago #
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yeah, but both Boardman and Obree cycled further.
on bikes that we would now consider antiques
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Travelling at >30mph for the whole hour. Not to be sniffed at.
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Anyone watching braendel?
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Yes - good effort!
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Where? (Channel?)
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Was on YouTube link via cycling weekly I think
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51.852km, an improvement of 742 metres.
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"But unlike the Grenchen track, the UCI track isn’t the standard 250m long; it’s only 200m. This means that over the course of an hour, Brändle will be aiming for 256 laps rather than 205, and with that come an extra 102 corners.
Corners are the most technically difficult part of an Hour ride. There is the potential to lose distance by taking a poor line, something that is even more of an issue for a relatively inexperienced track rider like Brändle.
But perhaps more significant, there are the g-forces to contend with, which push the rider and his bike down onto the track through each curve. These make it harder to maintain a stable aero position on the bike, and mean an hour-long ride on a velodrome is considerably more fatiguing and uncomfortable than it would be, even using the same bike and position, on the road. And of course on a smaller track, not only do the corners come about more often, they’re a little more pronounced."
Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/hour-record-preview-matthias-brandle-141930#I7k7c1HFRdPLb6oK.99
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Rohan Dennis breaks it. Well, smashed it.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/rohan-dennis-hour-record-attempt-2015/results
The commentator seemed to lose touch with reality towards the end, mistaking the moment he broke the record, and at the end mistaking how far he'd gone...
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Good effort with old tech. ;-)
Current one listed by IHPVA on a non UCI bike
90.60km Sam Whittingham (Canadian) USA 2009Meanwhile back in 1938
50.53km Francois Faure France 1938Posted 9 years ago #
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