Originally Posted by
DCB0
I think it is worth pointing out that originally Merckx intended to break not just the hour record, but also the 5km, 10km and 20km records in one ride.
He decided that was not possible... He decided to not try for the 5km record. He broke the rest.
The flip side is since the official record has gone back to using a roughly comprable bike I do not thnik any top level cyclists have tried for the record. It would have been nice if Indurain and Romminger made their attempts on traditional bikes, tehy seem to have been the last of the top level cyclists to try, but they were during the techlogical advances era.