Bradley Wiggins (London, 07.06.2015, 54.526 km)




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Article in "Cycling Weekly":  Sir Bradley Wiggins smashes Hour Record with 54.526 km
Video: Youtube UCI channel

Split Times

      km

Dowsett
Manchester, 02.05.2015
Wiggings
London, 07.06.2015
time avg. speed time avg. speed
1 1.16.071 47.324 1.11.7 ? 50.209
5 5.48.279 51.682 5.33 ? 54.054
10 11.29.690 52.197 11.01.904 54.388
15 17.11.709 52.340 16.30.401 54.523
20  22.53.582 52.418 21.59.324 54.573
25 28.35.623 52.459 27.27.988 54.612
30 34.14.231 52.574 32.57.217 54.622
35 39.52.484 52.665 38.26.950 54.61
40 45.33.080 52.688 43.56.49 54.618
45 51.10.961 52.752 49.27.371 54.594
50 56.46.683 52.837 54.59.555 54.553
51 57.53.681 52.855 56.05.799 54.549
52 59.00.039 52.881 57.12.305 54.541
53 58.18.986 54.530
54 59.25.488 54.523
1 hour 52.937 54.526
 


A graph by Xavier Disley (twitter.com/xavierdisley)

The air pressure was quite high on that day, around 1030 mbar. This means that Wiggings lost about 500 m compared to days with pressure around 1005 mbar at the beginning of june.

A graph by Xavier Disley (twitter.com/xavierdisley) showing this:

So with perfect conditions ca. 54.9 km/h should have been possible.

 

 

 

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