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Yeah, so only 15 years of disadvantaged riders then..
Guess, we'll see. I'd love it, of course, if he beat the other 'unbeatable' record. He's riding at DISC though which doesn't seem like the smartest option. Why not ride at altitude? He'd must have the time/money to find a suitable track and enough time to acclimatise. Even the Swiss track is at a moderate 'tude. Seems like he's making it harder on himself. Then again maybe his new team won't let him or don't have the coin.
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UCI regulations change on an almost daily basis at the moment, the point is that the sum total of revised regulations and technological progress means that by 2011 a UCI legal pursuit was ridden faster than the UCI legal record of 1996. Position regulations have, if anything, eased in the last 4 years, and technology hasn't stood still either, so unless Bobridge has weakened he should be able to beat the real hour record, unless of course he isn't as good as Boardman when the distance is stepped up from 4km to 55km+