Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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They chose that venue because its a fast velodrome. The rider still havent broken Boardmans time. All he did was make himself more aero.
How do you break someone’s time for an hour record?
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OK Campernaerts, now break the real hour record at nearly sea level - using altitude is cheating, like using performance improving drugs.
The incumbent did it at sea level, though he did use actual performance-enhancing drugs
If it is so easy at Altitude, how come it took the 5th attempt in Mexico since the last rule changes to do it? And should Campernarts been allowed to use ceramic bearings and specific paint as well? And also the Mercyx '72 record that was used a big benchmark for the hour was set in Mexico so it is not something new.
I'm sure Campernaerts will be so upset that you think he cheated. Funny, I can't find anywhere in the UCI rules where it says you must ride at sea-level.
I doesn't, but setting at altitude pretty much means everyone else has to as well, meaning it can only be done at limited locations.
55km.
In an hour.
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Well done Victor.
There appears to be a countdown, and a quick bit of maths suggests 16.55 UK time (BST?)
Come on Victor!
I'm really excited to see this, oh wait, hang on, as much as the fantastic endeavor it may be, can anyone think of a more boring sport to spectate at other than an hour record?
..(maybe a TT)...
It helps if the commentary is good. I'm hoping we get some live stats from Xavier Disley - https://twitter.com/xavierdisley
If the I won't be able to watch the whole hour but I'm very interested in how it pans out. I think it helps one already has an interest in/experience of time trialling.
Er, are you sure? CET is GMT+1, but Europe, like the UK, is currently on daylight savings time and therefore (technically) on CEST (GMT+2), and still one hour ahead of the UK.
Apologies there was some confusion there with the timings - some sources said CET time which would be same as UK, but looking at the live stream it definitely is CEST... an hour ahead of the UK. The post has been amended.
No worries - timezones and DST are the bane of my life at work, didn't want anyone to miss out
https://road.cc/content/news/259291-benedict-cumberbatch-slapped-cyclist...
Hmm, $6 million or getting to slap Blortybloop Crimpycrump in the face. That's a tough one.
In America, knock a cyclist off and they sue the shirt off your back. In Britain, knock a cyclist over and you get a slap off a big bloke called Scooby, a stern letter from the justice system (if your lucky) and the piss taken out of you on road.cc.
I'd rather cycle in the UK, at least you might get saved from a mugging by celebrity crime fighter Bendydick Stinkysnatch. (Or knocked off depending on Buffalo Custardbath's mood on the day.)
"If you're going to get hit by a car, you could do worse than America..."
I'm sure the rider would rather not have the brain injury than the $6 million, and in the US that probably would go as far you might first think in covering medical bills.
Depends on the brain injury. It does say "minor", and a mild concussion would be a minor traumatic brain injury, so think a headache and not really with it for a day or two, and then business as usual. I could live with that for $6M...
I was off work with concussion after a prang a few years ago, got a few hundred pounds.
On the other hand, of course, you don't get to choose quite what the injury is in advance!