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Hour Record with a twist.. can you pedal at 90kph for 1hr?

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“The $25,000 Dempsey-MacReady prize will be awarded to the first person to pedal at a steady 90kph (56mph) for a solid hour. That hasn’t been achieved yet, but the current mark is 52.57mph, held by Sam Whittingham of Canada in the Varna Diablo speed bike.”

“The $23,000 .deciMach Prize will be given to the first HPV to exceed one-tenth the speed of sound for 200m. At sea level on a perfectly flat course, this is 75mph. At Battle Mountain, the speed is adjusted to 82mph to compensate for altitude and grade. Whittingham is also the fastest man on Earth in this competition, having clocked a speed of 81mph in 2003.”

from: wired.com: high-tech pedal power

I will write something soon..

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but I’ve been busy scouring the web for UK-related bike stuff.

Unfortunately.. I found lots.

The large pile of URLs I’ve left scattered around recently is essentially a set of bookmarks that I can revisit later. Not having my own computer makes it a little pointless bookmarking sites, so I store them here.

Why am I telling you this?

Reading: “Personally I feel; that a good weblog is not just some witty quip appended to some link or the other. They should be more than a place to point at other people. That is almost lazy plagiarism.”

(from: www.ravenfamily.org/sam/hippy) made me feel guilty for simply posting URLs. Hell, I didn’t even have “witty quips” appended to them!

So, I am now providing a nice little justification for posting uninformative URLs lacking any “quippage”. It’s for my benefit as much as anyone else’s.

It’s funny that this quote comes from another “hippy” (lowercase “h” and all). Funnier still is the similar cycling thang this other hippy has going on. Another bike nut. For once I can say that I didn’t even find her site vanity googling, rather, via a rant on www.citycycling.co.uk.

Raging Bike

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“Raging Bike is an Internet site dedicated to environmental change by increasing the number of people who travel to work by bike.

Whenever we jump into our cars and start the engine we are polluting our environment. This is particularly true for short urban journeys that combine cold starts with stop/start driving.

On the other hand if you jump on your bike to make the same journey you are saving the environment and improving your own and others health.

Raging Bike measures individual cyclists contribution to the environment, the money they save and the calories they burn, by choosing to cycle rather than taking a car or bus.”

www.ragingbike.com