I think I read somewhere that for the hour record you must use a steel track bike and plain drop bars. It has something to do with someone breaking Eddy's record and then people realizing how big a hand equipment plays in it. There are two separate titles, one if you use any equipment you want, and then the normal title for using the regulated equipment. There was an article about this in Bicycling a year or two ago. Man would that be cool to see Lance cruising around on a steel track bike.