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Sam Whittingham pedaled a streamlined bicycle, the Varna Diablo III at an average speed of 53.918 mph for one hour (60 minutes) at the Nissan Technical Center Test Track near Casa Grande, Arizona on April 8, 2007.
On October 3, 1995 Fred Rompelberg cycled behind a motor dragster on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, achieving a speed of 268.831 kilometers an hour.
Dave Wiens won the 2008 Leadville 100 in a record 6 hours, 45 minutes and 45 seconds.
Markus Riese of Germany cycled 50 kilometers backwards in 1:46:59 on May 24, 2003.
On July 19, 2005 Ondřej Sosenka of Moscow, Russia rode 49.700km in one hour.
The legend, Eddy Merckx, rode 49.431km in one hour on October 25, 1972 in Mexico City.
On January 15, 1994 Francesco Moser rode 51.84km in one hour at age 42 in Mexico City.
Fastest Tour de France time trial stage climbs up Alpe d’Huez: 1. Marco Pantani 1997 37′35″ 2. Lance Armstrong 2004 37′36″
The fastest Race Across America men’s speed was by Pete Penseyres in 1986, when he rode 3107 miles (5000 km) at 15.40mph (24.8 km/h) in 8 days, 9 hours, and 47 minutes. The fastest woman was Seana Hogan in 1995, who averaged 13.23mph (21.3 km/h) to finish 2912 miles (4686 km) in 9 days, 4 hours, 2 minutes. The shortest elapsed time for a crossing was outside an official RAAM, by Michael Secrest in 1990, in 7 days 23 hours.
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Sam Whittingham also set the record for the 200m flying start in the Diablo II in 2002. Average speed: 81mph.
The record of Sam is broken by the eivie team riding backwards! :
“Dekra Test Oval, Germany; Damjan + Eivie II set the world 1-hour distance record: 87.123 km.”
Thats 300 metre more then Sam did:
http://www.eivie.com/epage/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=0
2004 August 1st, Opel test track in Dudenhofen, Germany. Women’s World Hour record Rosemarie Buehler of Switzerland, riding the Varna (Sams old bike), for a distance of 73.411 km.
2003 Leontien van Moorsel (NL) Women World hour record: 46,06511 km official UCI record on a 333 track in Mexico City. Not broken and only a small 7% distance from the 59,7 official male UCI record. Chicks rules!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontien_van_Moorsel
Right on, thank you, Danielle!
sam is also the man when it comes to actually making bikes too – http://www.fortebikes.com/index.html.