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  • Full article: Chris Hoy WR

    How fast is fast? "New World Record, 24.758 for 500m FS. Average speed 72.703kph. Averaged 9.9 for 200m over 500m."

  • Chris Hoy Vids on Auntie Beeb

    I did faster than that once, but I was riding down a mountain..

  • But not as fast as 'our' Theo Bos and his 500.000 pound bike :|

  • Jos But not as fast as 'our' Theo Bos and his 500.000 pound bike :|

    Jos.. that looks strangely familiar.. if it isn't an Aussie BT then it's a good copy of one by Koga.

  • As far as I know it was developed by some dutch dude, a technical university and some other tech institute.

  • The orange and white one in the top photo is definitely a BT. The new, black one I'm not 100% sure about.
    Koga were meant to be doing their own - guess it's a little lame having your stickers on a bike everyone at the track knows is something else.

  • "The first attempt didn’t lead to a record-breaking time, so Theo Bos immediately offered the jury a second attempt, which he completed with a time of 9.772 seconds. The old world record had been held for eleven years by Canadian Curt Harnett (9.865) and was set at the high-altitude velodrome in Bogota. The Moscow track is at sea level. This is highly significant, particularly as in Moscow Bos was not yet riding his new bike, developed for him by Koga and built for him by the Royal Netherlands Cycle Union (KNWU)." Bos Record

    So the record was set on the Aussie bike but the black one is his new Koga one?

  • The orange one might be, not to sure about that. The black one deffo isn't a BT.

    Was funny last year when we we're talking to Franco Marvulli at the Zürich six days and looking at his bike. It was clearly a Walser (german bike) with Koga stickers on it and after initialy denying he admitted with a big smile on his face :)

  • Translation.. ?
    http://vulcanus.tno.nl/industrie_en_techniek/actueel/theo_bos_presenteert_aero/index.xml

    Koga Kimera is their (Koga's) bike. First major success at Majorca this year, so not used for the WR:
    http://www.koga.com/uk/newsitem.asp?id=5178273&cid=6w596d1pOJ647qFJSeNZQKC8866nU824t27H944x

  • Realplayer stream from the bbc quite interesting, but not smooth when I played it.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/sport/cycling/video/104000/bb/104065_16x9_bb.ram

  • I wonder what Chris Roy eats on his morning meals to have muscles like that... it can't be just cereals and milk!

    Chris Roy please reveal us your secrets! ;)

  • clearly they've just inflated him with that tank of prax oxifarm, whatever that is.

    he must have a valve on his forehead.

  • It's NOS:

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