The Hour Record

Had forgotten this was today; is it not Scotland today? Can you see Jens and your own bike at the same time at LMNH Mare Street? Wanted to go to Regents Park but if he does all the riding why should I?

I thought a dedicated thread for this lovely event might be nice.

Oh yes, why don't you start one?

#britishunderstatement

Anyone know how long this will take?

No idea, but I know that whatever happens, this will be our record.

Cyclingnews article featuring comments from some old chancer:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/merckx-voigt-can-beat-the-hour-record

another old chancer is sure he's the next one to break it...

seems there's no animosity outside the track though

easy jens...

101" ftw

40 seconds up... that's about 500 metres. He going to smash it at this pace.

Just hit 51km/h average, 4 mins to go.

Carlton Kirby ran out of interesting things to say on lap 3.

Such a slow mexican wave

'This is going to stand the test of at least some time'

Poetry Carlton.

51.115km :)

Monster ride!

ouch, what a pace

Didn't expect him to beat it by that much. Fair play.

I'll see how long I can hold that pace for on OKR tomorrow.

51.115km

He looked fucking fine afterwards! Lazy git could've pushed out another couple of k.

Who? What? Where? When?

Doing it wrong

Would have liked to have watched this on-line if it wasn't blocked in UK.
Is there a place to watch a re-run?

Can you not use a VPN or something to hide your location?

Tried a proxy site for UCI channel on YouTube but the player wouldn't load.

Given that's the 9th best attempt in history, he's way off really.

it's Maas van Beek (59) spinning 80 x 14 and he's aiming to go for it in La Paz, January 2015

In der deutschen Presse. Nearly nix. Ironically only:

http://www.t-online.de/sport/radsport/id_71052628/jens-voigt-nimmt-den-stundenweltrekord-ins-visier.html