The 112mph BICYCLE
12-31-13, 09:39 AM
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The 112mph BICYCLE
"Bike shop owner has set a new world record after inventing a bicycle that can travel at more than 110mph.
Jason Rourke, 42, spent 10 days building the super-strong mountain bike which cost a total of £5,000.
Motorcycle racer Guy Martin commissioned Mr Rourke to make the bike which he pedalled into the record books
at 112.94mph (181km/h) earlier this year."
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ord-books.html
Jason Rourke, 42, spent 10 days building the super-strong mountain bike which cost a total of £5,000.
Motorcycle racer Guy Martin commissioned Mr Rourke to make the bike which he pedalled into the record books
at 112.94mph (181km/h) earlier this year."
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ord-books.html
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12-31-13, 10:23 AM
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Looks like it was motor-paced, but I believe the current record for that is by Rompelberg at 167 mph. So it's not clear what record he set.
12-31-13, 11:11 AM
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ISO: A late 1980's Giant Iguana MTB frameset (or complete bike) 23" Red with yellow graphics.
"Cycling should be a way of life, not a hobby.
RIDE, YOU FOOL, RIDE!"_Nicodemus
"Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred
Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"_krazygluon
12-31-13, 12:36 PM
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going to all that trouble, and then looking at the wrong record to go after. I'll bet that's embarrassing.
12-31-13, 12:43 PM
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On a Welsh Beach at low tide. Maybe a British record , for Fixie MTB's,... was IHPVA there, doing the timing?
12-31-13, 12:51 PM
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I guess he managed to beat this one, anyway:
12-31-13, 01:07 PM
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I believe from some Googling that it's a British record. They must not have salt flats...
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I'm thinking that this was just something for the "Speed with Guy Martin" TV show and he says to the reporter "I actually went faster than the world record for unmotorpaced cycling" and then the reporter wrote it up that way.
12-31-13, 02:46 PM
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Donald Cambell, the land speed record was tested on an Australian dry lake bed . [64]
403.10 mph (648.73 km/h) [a Car , not push-bike.. ]
403.10 mph (648.73 km/h) [a Car , not push-bike.. ]
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I watched the episode in the UK, bike had a double chainwheel system, they used a truck with a large rectangular windbreak on the back which made an airpocket behind for him to ride in, it was a british/european record he broke and the show was excellent to watch!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7nXNzpOyIc
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