UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/18/...d-world-record
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Bod

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 8:55:02 PM UTC+1, Bod wrote:
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/18/...d-world-record
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Bod

If he had been '"pulled up to speed" by a Hennessey Venom F5 maybe he could have added another 100mph.

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

On 18/08/2019 23:38, Simon Jester wrote:
On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 8:55:02 PM UTC+1, Bod wrote:
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/18/...d-world-record
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Bod

If he had been '"pulled up to speed" by a Hennessey Venom F5 maybe he could have added another 100mph.

Indeed.

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Bod

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

On Monday, August 19, 2019 at 6:03:18 AM UTC+1, Bod wrote:
On 18/08/2019 23:38, Simon Jester wrote:
On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 8:55:02 PM UTC+1, Bod wrote:
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/18/...d-world-record
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Bod

If he had been '"pulled up to speed" by a Hennessey Venom F5 maybe he could have added another 100mph.

Indeed.

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Bod

The point is it wasn't a real record.

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

On 19/08/2019 17:53, Simon Jester wrote:
On Monday, August 19, 2019 at 6:03:18 AM UTC+1, Bod wrote:
On 18/08/2019 23:38, Simon Jester wrote:
On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 8:55:02 PM UTC+1, Bod wrote:
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/18/...d-world-record
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Bod

If he had been '"pulled up to speed" by a Hennessey Venom F5 maybe he could have added another 100mph.

Indeed.

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Bod

The point is it wasn't a real record.

Well it's certainly the fastest a bicycle has travelled at, just not
under its own steam.


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Bod

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

On 19/08/2019 21:16, Bod wrote:

Well it's certainly the fastest a bicycle has travelled at, just not
under its own steam.


I couldn't work out why the cyclist bothered to pedal?

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

On 19/08/2019 21:26, GB wrote:
On 19/08/2019 21:16, Bod wrote:

Â* Well it's certainly the fastest a bicycle has travelled at, just
not under its own steam.


I couldn't work out why the cyclist bothered to pedal?


Indeed, it did seem a bit pointless.

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Bod

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

It highlights the massive dependency of high speed personal / low passenger transportation on energy due to wind resistance.

Some in the EU have suggested packing semi-autonomous vehicles together on freeways. These cars can brake faster [draft closer] than humans to get much greater fuel efficiency.

Musk suggested the "hyperloop" but even a 15 m vacuum tube like those used to cool lettuce -- about the same size as a hyperloop tube -- is expensive. Vacuum tubes are so expensive they are hauled all over the West depending on which area is harvesting lettuce. It's cheaper than building more tubes.

Still it's good someone at least tried to end run wind resistance.


Bret Cahill

UK cyclist sets motor-paced speed world record
 

On 21/08/2019 05:13, Bret Cahill wrote:

Some in the EU have suggested packing semi-autonomous vehicles
together on freeways. These cars can brake faster [draft closer]
than humans to get much greater fuel efficiency.

Better to be poor and have choked roads than have the EU take control...