Chris Hoy World Record Attempt - Part 1

[Lynxtro]

Looks like they filmed it with a camera from the 1970's

[zakkerucci]

what a start.....

[59Souvenir]

Ecco un atleta.

[ben1996123]

only 5 milliseconds? wow....

my best 800m is only 1:38, but i only started last week -.-

[acies92]

.... .005 seconds off. id wanna kill myself

[GerbilEssences]

A Hoy there!

[BrundukasLT]

@JesseReith1 hi, i am brundukas, nice to meet u noob ;D

[BrundukasLT]

hey, but it's only 1 km -.-* and only 60km avg?

THAT is SLOW

[anubis520]

@BrundukasLT when you consider the amount of energy burned trying to get up to speed and how much your average is brought down from the start you realize 60km/h isn't all that slow.

[antiaverage1]

@wellytopjohnny Muscle fibers in general lose their effectiveness as you get older.

[ponchoso]

Such a beautiful track!! Bad place to break records I guess... bc of the altitude??

[recon455]

@ponchoso No, it is a good place to break records.

[antiaverage1]

@ponchoso Quite the opposite. The altitude is exactly why he chose the location. It gives an advantage to record attempts.

[mensaboy1987]

less air up there... less resistance.

[00Pedro]

@mensaboy1987 Also less oxygen... :P

[edgarjun]

Hoy has IncrediblE power. at what age did he do this? this short distance stuff is for the 23-25 year olds. If I remeber correctly, Arnaud got the world record at 22 years of age

[2puttking]

he is the best!

[thelehmannator1]

For the massive gear he's pushing for this TT, he's got an INSANE start.

[KarbonliteLight]

@thelehmannator1  60x13

[JackLawrenceXXX]

That is stupid fast!

[wardster10]

Ouch..

0.005 :/

[haagsebeemdenSenN]

he is one off the best what a man

[mirion88]

out in the open o_O isent the wind a disatvantage

[jasoncreek]

provided it is steady and doesn't change direction, no. but it looks like high altitude... definitely a disadvantage for the unacclimated. but, maybe lest drag due to lower density... IF you can breathe.

[drsquirrel0]

@jasoncreek I was just wondering that and assumed it must be the low drag coefficient.

Is 60 seconds too long to do the sprint on one breath? Surely it must be...

[antiaverage1]

@jasoncreek He acclimated before doing this attempt. He chose the location with purpose and trained for it.

[UprightMike]

Chris started both of his runs in Boliva faster than Arnaud. A plot of Arnaud's run shows a rise in speed, slight decrease in speed, then rise in speed again toward the end.  A plot of Chris's run shows a faster start than Arnaud, that then tapers off steadily till the finish.

[UprightMike]

Chris Hoy was ahead of the Pace that Arnaud Tourant had on his record of 58.875 on the same track. Here is the difference in Splits:

At 167 meters, Chris was 0.566 secs ahead of Arnaud

At 333 meters, Chris was 0.717 secs ahead of Arnaud

At 500 meters, Chris was 0.823 secs ahead of Arnaud

At 667 meters, Chris was 0.710 secs ahead of Arnaud

At 833 meters, Chris was 0.452 secs ahead of Arnaud

At 1000 meters, Chris fell 0.005 secs behind Arnaud.

It's not over till its over! Oh so close

[UprightMike]

By my calculations, based off of interpolation of the split data, Chris Hoy did the his first Quarter-Mile (akin to a 1/4 mile Drag Race) from Standing start in about 26.19 seconds. This could be the fastest anyone's ever done that distance. The current IHPVA record for a streamlined bicycle is 26.96 seconds by Kirk Edwards from the University of California-Berkeley in the Concept Z streamlined recumbent bicycle.

[mikekingphoto]

Met The Hoy, been to 7 Olympics etc, in the top 3 sportspeople I've ever met, and I've met most. Superb man.

[zlymarek]

1 lap = 333m

[machohogan]

actually this track is 300 meters, not the same as a standard track.

[mcclausky]

333.33 per lap, which makes 3 Laps for one exact Kilometer. Before the 90's, this track size was standard.

[DogOnBoard]

woooa !!

that means he rides with an average speed of 60km/h

with a bycicle!!

OMG!!

[chrisbear08]

@DogOnBoard hes breaking the speed limit in most cities :S

[akimlaszek]

250 Meters

[alextaylor3747]

Probably would have done it if his front wheel was on the right way round...

:(

[dusterbunny]

it doesn't even matter which way you put the front wheel on you bike. if there was a specific right way round then how would you tell?

[InfiniFC]

That wheel is a Mavic iO, which has a specific direction for the spokes to be most aerodynamic. A batch came from the Mavic factory with the direction stickers on the wrong sides and therefore pointing the wrong way. So the mechanic put it in backwards without noticing. The time he lost easily cost him the WR. Jan Ullric ran with a similar wheel (PRO 4-Rays) backwards at the Tour of Germany TT a few years back, it was calculated to have cost 30sec in 30km or 1sec per km.

[azertyuiop32]

hoy is a legend.

these guys have to train so so hard and have be utterly dedicated to their sport so anyone that has achieved what this guy has deserves enourmouse credit

[passionx]

This man is INCREDIBLE!

[HS5INL]

super man chris

[wullebulle123]

thank you chris

[duncr]

In La Paz at altitude as well the bloke is superman. Spent 1 hour on ground afterwards recovering

[HaytchDotCom]

i've seen this guy do standing starts on gears 100'' and higher, incredibly strong. top bloke a man mountain

[artson71b]

0.005 of a second, there are not to many things you can do in that amount of time, except miss out on a world record. hard luck chris