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What do you think the bicycle land speed record is?
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I will guess 110 before reading the link.
Edit: OK, I was a little off. At least my Vettes are faster. |
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I wouldn't have guessed that fast.
Props for figuring out that pedaling in a "vacuum" ( or dead air space ) makes that mind boggling speed possible. |
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Yeah, no.
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He being sucked along by a vacuum cleaner....WTH??
anyone stupid enough to buy into that BS is dumm as a box of rox..... |
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No matter how he did it I wouldn’t want to be on a bicycle going that fast. 🙄
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From another source:
https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/...d-at-295-km-h/ Google bicycle land speed record. it happened. One article I read did have the qualifier that it was the Motor Vehicle Paced record. |
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Yeah, since the article said nothing about being sucked along by a vacuum cleaner. More like the vacuum created by drafting a vehicle in front of you. Like just about every car in a NASCAR race.
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but in Nascar, they want to go first, that bike can NOT do that speed without that special car/setup in front.....so it's just bullshit....of course.....
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It's not bullshit, it's just a different kind of record. Lots of Bonneville cars have to be push started at a relatively high speed because of their gearing. Early NHRA dragsters were all push started. Even today they need external equipment to start their engines. Nobody is claiming this is a bicycle you can roll out of your garage and go for a ride on.
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On a side note, no way I'd being moving that fast on two wheels motor or not. My best was 165 in my Z on the 505 (Mr Pea knows this stretch) and that was enough for me, I wanted more and it was pulling hard but my mind was fighting me "this could go really bad, really fast" |
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