The Hour Record

back on the bike for more - masochist

The "so so" hand gesture when the distance was displayed was just delicious.

He absolutely blitzed that...not even out of breath!

just needs to spark up a ciggy or have beer for full legend status

If my lip reading skills are up to scratch i believe he is complaining that his arse is sore

Shoes look like custom Giro Empires, for whoever asked about them up-thread.

Shoulda used a Brooks B17

so Alex bagged a 52.937km, Wiggos put some distance onto that.

A Victory lap with a G&T and I would of put a portrait of him above the fire.

Well, he is quite the boozer.

Been drinking so had to do math on the calculater, thats an extra 1.589km to Wiggs, don't have a conversion table handy but thats about another mile onto to Alexs....

Apparently.

he didn't look that cooked after, getting back on the bike & all.

Suggests he didn't dig deep enough...

I think that hurt more than he let on...

Air pressure not ideal.

#Chapeau

yeah the post @xavierdisley posted on twitter a couple of days ago suggests that the air pressure cost him about 490m.

Yeah saw that there, forgot he moved onto them from his bonts.

"that is the closest I've come to knowing what it's like to have a baby"

Come a close 2nd to Hatton after his fight with Mayweather, "well it's not a tickling contest is it"

How bad was the coverage though? A record of this type needs all sorts of charts and calculations to keep checking what pace he is on, I had to resort to minimising and getting the calculator up.

And the commentary as others have mentioned was embarrassing. My favourite was Kirby saying that when riding this type of event "Everything becomes a dark zone beyond yourself. "

The best part was Sky TV missing the start, and the commentary was sycophantic to the extreme

So going on chatter here.

Some aero tweeks and carefull timing for best conditions and another 500m should be doable by Wiggs in current form, or 55+kmh

Closer to a km just from the conditions, I doubt there's much more aero they can do.

Nice nod to British manufacturers, Hope made the chainring.

Why no branding then?

My favourite was when Rob Hayles rather adventurously suggested that 'when he came up that ramp, he looked like Bradley Wiggins'.

Would be interesting to see how far he can go with the secret squirrels pursuit bike.
Wide forks vs the narrow and flat ones.