The Hour Record

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Revolution Series ‏@RevolutionUK 24s24 seconds ago
Fifteen minutes left, @GustavLarsson is speeding up, but it might be a bit too late for the UCI Hour Record
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"Larsson has cycled 25 miles in a shade over 47 minutes"

Not many people have done that without going down a Welsh mountain.

Five minutes left, 50.024 km/h average. he's just gone through the Swedish record @GustavLarsson

Fastest ‘25’ of the season (on the road)
1/6/14 Chester R.C. ‘25’ Andy Wilkinson 51min 58sec

A new national record for @GustavLarsson just over 50 kmh, official distance to follow

Need to get off to the track myself now.

No Jason Kenny tonight as his TUE is in the post.

Fastest ‘25’ of the season (on the road)
1/6/14 Chester R.C. ‘25’ Andy Wilkinson 51min 58sec

Seems unlikely, Kevin Tye did 49:59 in a Charlotteville event I rode, and I'd be shocked if the H25/8 yielded the fastest 25 of 2014

Bottrill 45:43 in the PTW 25 07/09/14

Another Listener's Hour, basically testing arm on TT bike to see if next weekend's 300k is actually doable. Faster than the last one at Hillingdon on a slower setup. #listenershour

https://www.strava.com/activities/272507822

Good one man! Took me a lot longer than that to get back on the bike after I bust my collar bone. Chapeau.

I could move it straight after the crash so it certainly wasn't as bad as previous efforts! Bruising is slow fucking off though..

I tried my own hour record at the UCI Velodrome on Saturday. There were only three other people on track, so I got a clear run at it. 36.96km from a standing start, without tri bars. Hoped to get rather closer to 40km, I must admit.

Well done for giving it a go, even if you are disappointed with the distance. Was it as hard as you envisaged?

I'm sure if you want to improve it @xavierdisley would be more than happy to help for a fee.

Your head position probably stole you 1km if you had to keep an eye up for the other riders most of the time.

What gear were you on?

Don't say EPO #protip

50*16. My normal track gear. Thinking of going up to 50*15 though as it's a bit too spinny for the very fastest pacelines at the UCI.

No, it wasn't a serious effort or anything. I just decided, when we turned up and there were only two other people using the track, that I'd give it a try. If it had been a serious effort I probably wouldn't have ordered the second bottle of wine with dinner the night before...

About half of the time @Cycliste and I were the only people on track, and @Cycliste was behind me trailing around after me. But there were plenty of other things which would have slowed me down as well - no tri bars, insufficient warm-up, hangover, no skinsuit, normal helmet. And being old, fat and slow, of course.

I'm quite sure a maximum of only 3 people of this forum has ridden the >36.96 in an hour (return leg, no drafting, fixed gear) within the last year.

I should probably try this hour thing. Am I allowed to use a dual carriageway?

Count me as one of them, 25 miles (40.2km) in 59:25 last year with <1.5 miles between start and finish points. DannyAlf and @umop3pisdn both went quite a bit quicker on fixed, so there's 3 to start with, and @pnut went a lot faster than any of us. @Fixedwheelnut did 36.902 km/h for 25 miles, so there's a good chance he could pick a 1 hour segment where he did >37km. @xavierdisley was sub 2h for a 50 on fixed, so he must have easily done a 1h segment of over 40km

there's a good chance

Doesn't fit the bill.

24 second laps for an hour is good going on 84" Well done.