The Hour Record

Rotten luck for Colin Lynch today, front tyre blowout.

Wally Fowler is doing the 80-84 Hour Record at LVRC champs later this month:

https://www.facebook.com/AeroCoach/posts/1056700697697902

I've been training at Newport and Aldersley with Wally this year, he is mad fast and will be rocking some AeroCoach wheels!

Smash it Wally!

We got there in the end:

http://britishcyclesport.com/2015/events/rob-gilmour-breaks-uci-hour-record-for-veterans/

Bloody good effort that!

Great stuff. Thanks for writing up the report.

Really enjoyed that, thank you!

Awesome!

15 Years today.

Wally Fowler covered 35.772km for the 80-84 record on Saturday, laying down 6km plus on the previous record that was broken only a few weeks ago. He sent me an email last night - apparently he cramped up in the final 10min which meant he couldn't push on for the 36km mark and had to just stick it out.

We'd done some aero testing on wheels with Wally beforehand and also tyre selection. I'll see him maybe this week, be interested to see if he wants another go but he's really shelved it - that might be the biggest hour record increase in distance ever but will have to check.

^ Wally Fowler rode lots further than I managed this lunchtime, 33.75 in 59:08 official for me had started and stopped half a lap away from transponder loop and the session before was late getting off track else it'd have been full hour at appx 34.2kmph. All ridden on or above Red line as it was a public session.

Interesting that I never broke sweat or went above chatting pace until last 10 mins, yet my glutes were very sore after, and from 30 mins in my hands were pins n needled lots.

Not ashamed to say a rider twice my age drafted (and chatted with me) for the full session then sprinted off on our last lap, I couldn't have chased for owt.

Edit: linky http://www.mylaps.com/en/practice-results/activity/677801411?view=table#view-tabs

^I do enjoy the short amateur/practice hour session stories people post here now and then

^ cheers, I'm still looking forward to an @General_Lucifer attempt and write-up, more so after the tale of the 10...

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^ cool!

Dec 19th, MCR:

@ScottBurns6 So a month today (19th Dec) I'm having a crack at the Masters @UCI_cycling world hour record at Manchester Velodrome. All welcome #BurnsHour

Link to Tweet: https://twitter.com/ScottBurns6/status/667385820450570241

Wiggo to go old skool on the Hour?

http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/11/news/wiggins-hints-at-taking-on-merckx-hour_389714

He can do it, 50km would need 440w plus, if he can get his CdA down to ~0.26 on drops (I can, but with posh wheels and an aero frame, not Merckx wheels/round tubes).

Whatever distance he does, there will always be somebody who says he didn't really beat Merckx because some unregulated variable (e.g. clothing) made it easier after 45 years of development. He'd be better off trying to beat the real hour record, which is still held by Chris Boardman at 56.375km

Well, no chance of that unless he goes to altitude.

Since Boardman's 1996 hour was set using the superman position it's obviously difficult to compare. But do your sums give you a guesstimate of who had the bigger engine out of Boardman and Wiggins?

Engine/power output was similar between the two over their respective hours, which makes Boardman the outright winner on w/kg. Boardman's superman CdA is inachievable for Wiggins

Boardman's superman CdA is inachievable for Wiggins

What does Jack Bobridge have that Wiggins can't?

I'm sure I read Somewhere at the time that Boardman was estimated at c. 6.4w/kg. Dunno how given they couldn't even decide whether he weighed 68 or 69kg, never mind air density and cda.

Not for his Superman record. More like 6.1